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History

A TV screen shows U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program in Seoul, South Korea.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

History instructs, and we ignore it at our great peril

Of course, learning from history requires a modicum of reading and knowledge, attributes seemingly lacking in our 45th president.

8 years ago

Daniel Ison and Lee Minora perform an except from their upcoming show “The Art of Swimming,” at Tiny Dynamite.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Learning ‘The art of swimming,’ in one act

“The Art of Swimming” runs through Sunday at The Headhouse Café.

8 years ago

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Hereford Lighthouse (Bill Barlow/for WHYY)
Community

North Wildwood changes lock on lighthouse, sparking public feud

New Jersey has a host of popular lighthouses, but you may not have heard of the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse in North Wildwood. It’s n ...

8 years ago

Personal items that once belonged to Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, are displayed for an online auction with proceeds to benefit the victims' families Wednesday, May 18, 2011 in Atlanta. The items include handwritten letters, typewriters, tools, clothing and several hundred books. (David Goldman/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

The real ‘Fitz’ talks about taking down the Unabomber

The former Bensalem cop is at the center of a new Discovery Channel series called "Manhunt: Unabomber."

8 years ago

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Harold Dahmer, whose father Vernon Dahmer was killed in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan, smiles when he sees a photograph of his younger self on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
NPR
Community

‘Uncomfortable’ Mississippi Civil Rights Museum aims to face past, move forward

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opens Saturday in Jackson as a testament to the state's complicated, often dark, racial and political history.

8 years ago

Chantal Pronteau has been a Kitasoo/Xai'xais Coastal Guardian Watchman since 2015. She patrols about 1,500 square miles of inlets on the Canadian coast. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Watching over the land in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

First Nations communities in British Columbia are training indigenous people to manage local natural resources.

8 years ago

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Science

Delaware archaeologists find groundbreaking human remains

Eleven 17th century remains have been found in Rehoboth.

8 years ago

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Christopher Harris was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s. He was told he would live about a year. An early member of the Atlanta Buyers Club, he's now 73 and has a daughter and three grandchildren. (StoryCorps)
NPR
Health

How a slip of paper impacted an AIDS diagnosis

Christopher Harris was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s. At the time, there was only one drug approved for treatment, and the diagnosis often meant a death sentence.

8 years ago

A museum worker carries a 19th century painting by Polish artist Robert Sliwinski during a ceremony Wednesday in Warsaw, Poland. The work was looted by the Nazis during World War II and recently recovered in the U.S. by the FBI. (Alik Keplicz/AP)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Painting stolen by the Nazis is returned to Poland

After a tip from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, FBI agents recovered the painting in a town near Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 11, 1991, regarding Clarence Thomas' confirmation to the Supreme Court. (AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

For years, Anita Hill was a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for women speaking out

Is it time to re-investigate Hill's allegations against Thomas?

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The rise of Nazis; in Germany and in America

Guests: Thomas Childers, Arnie Bernstein On Sunday, The New York Times published an article about a low- ...

Air Date: November 29, 2017

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Breaking ground on the Holocaust Memorial plaza
Community

Groundbreaking for Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia

Philadelphia is building up one of the oldest Holocaust monuments in the United States.

8 years ago

Bottle (Photo by Wendel White)
Arts & Entertainment

Is Princeton’s Paul Robeson house trying to tell us something?

The sandal, encrusted with a fine layer of grit, looks like it’s made of stone. A tin of Beecham’s Pills from St. Helen’s, Lancashi ...

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Hidden City / Broken Symphony

Guests: Joseph B. Elliot, Nathaniel Popkin, Peter Woodall, Robert Blackson Philadelphia is filled with unseen spa ...

Air Date: November 27, 2017

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View of city archives in West Philly
Community

From William Penn to a margarine outlaw, Philly City Archives on the move

There once was a time when you could be arrested for possession of margarine in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

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