History

When the Supreme Court ruled this past week on "faithless electors," Hamilton's name appeared five times. But the story is a little more complicated than the Broadway show.

Princeton professor Julian Zelizer discusses his book, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party."

Gov. Phil Murphy supports the legislature that would replace the colonial-era term with something modern and understandable.

The first Philadelphia museum to reopen premieres a touring show of Madame Tussauds wax figures.

While some residents expressed joy at the removal of the Columbus statue, the scene around where the statue stood for decades was like any other day.

Crews in Trenton started dismantling the statue Wednesday, a day after city Mayor Reed Gusciora announced the decision.

Pieces from a 1940s collection of portraits showcasing prominent Black Americans are back on virtual display in a new exhibition by the Pearl S. Buck House.

Named Kongonaphon kely, which means tiny bug slayer, the creature looked like a dinosaur but scampered the Earth earlier, predating both dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs.

The Hagley Library has collected more than a million online documents in an effort to preserve information about the response to COVID-19 for future historians.

NPR marks the Fourth of July with what has become a Morning Edition tradition: the annual reading of that document.

Another weekend of protests in and around Philadelphia put the Fourth of July in a different light for many who never saw the holiday as representing them.

Today, we listen to Marty's interviews with Leslie Odom Jr. of the musical Hamilton, Imani Perry on "The Black National Anthem," and Sarah Vowell discusses Lafayette.

Lawsuit filed to return statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo to committee that paid for it.

Amidst the weeks of protests, an old conversation has gained new traction: what do we do with our monuments to slaveholders and other problematic historical figures?

Delaware was the last state to abolish the use of the whipping post as a form of legal punishment in 1972. Now the final remaining post on public display will be removed.