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Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabma town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

Presidents use references to great events as a way of acknowledging that what unites Americans is not ethnicity or even language but ideas and a shared past. President Obama cited historical moments in his inaugural; look for similar touchstones at the State of the Union address.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries about how American school children learn about U.S. history.

Archaeologists say a new dig site in northeast Georgia is revealing some surprising history about the state and about people who lived there long before the Europeans.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit 25 homers in the final round to win. His dad, hall-of-famer Vlad Guerrero, won the derby 16 years ago. They are the first father-son winners of the event.

The relics of African-American families help tell the story of America, the Smithsonian says. Museum experts are traveling the country to help identify and care for items of cultural significance.

Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has compiled a playlist to go along with his book, "The World".

Haley Cohen Gilliland talks about her book, "A Flower Traveled In My Blood," about the work of the Abuelas of the Plaza de Mayo and how Argentina's stolen children have grappled with finding their place in history.

More than 13 Nepalese climbers died while preparing a route on Mount Everest for Western climbers. Grayson Schaffer of Outside Magazine explains that local porters and guides bear the brunt of the danger on these extreme climbs.

Martin Scorsese's three-and-a-half-hour mob movie, "The Irishman," stars Robert De Niro as a killer for hire, and Al Pacino as Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa.