Books

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson.

"We live in the golden age of whale science."

"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.

Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...

“Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,’” immediately landed on the New York Times bestselling list.

A new book unites Joe Biden and Barack Obama as a crime-fighting duo investigating the suspicious death of an Amtrak engineer in Delaware.

If you didn't book your tickets to Hogwarts in time, celebrate the birth of the Boy Who Lived at one of these local events.

Guest: Jon Meacham Presidential historian JON MEACHAM j ...

At her fourth annual Educator Summit, Penn professor and "grit" expert Angela Duckworth brings teachers from all over the globe. WHYY spoke to some about the theory.

The goal was to provide a token of comfort, escape, to the roughly 20 migrant kids staying at the center in Berks County.

With the help of a $3,000 grant, Mighty Writers is giving more than a hundred books to migrant children at the Berks County Residential Center.

Guests: Jamie Bernstein, Jonathan Coopersmith Leonard Bernstein would have turned 100 this year. The revered cond ...

Three Philadelphia libraries now have "play-and-learn space," designed to bust up the old notion that libraries are quiet places.

Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts visits the campus of The University of Pennsylvania for an interview with Mich ...

In his new memoir, Black Klansman, he tells the story of how he hoodwinked the Ku Klux Klan into thinking he was one of them.