History

Launched at the Bicentennial, the annual airborne event petered out in the ’90s.

The ribbon-cutting happened 171 years after the Underground Railroad conductor first attempted to escape from slavery. It follows a virtual opening in June.

This week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will receive the 2020 Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center.

Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein discusses his new book about the history and future of money.

Albert Petrocelli died from COVID-19 in April, at 73 years old. His death marked the second time the Petrocelli family was touched by unexpected tragedy.

Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, both traveled to rural Shanksville, Pa., where the hijacked flight crashed in a field, killing everyone on board.

9/11 is a complicated occasion in a maelstrom of a year, as the U.S. grapples with a health crisis, searches its soul over racial injustice and prepares to choose a leader.

Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote the book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He talked with NPR about defining fascism and how conspiracy theories play a part.

Author Erik Larson on Winston Churchill's leadership through the Blitz, the nine months of German nighttime bombing raids that killed tens of thousands of British people.

The National Youth Foundation’s Writer’s Workshop's latest biography is on the Godmother of hip-hop, Philadelphia’s own, Lady B.

The plaintiffs include relatives of those impacted by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as well as a 105-year-old survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle.

Yale professor Jason Stanley says global fascism is on the rise, and that America is not a fascist state but the President employs traditionally fascist tactics.

Investigative reporters James Steel and Donald Bartlett have just updated their 1992 book "America: What Went Wrong," adding with the new subtitle, "The Crisis Deepens."

In the final installment of our series "Why didn't I go there?" take a virtual tour of Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park, once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Hurricane Laura has been described as one of the most powerful storms to hit the Gulf Coast in decades. We take a look at other infamous storms to strike the region.