History History

History

Wednesday

Regina Campbell holds her paperwork for knocking on doors to tell residents about issues on the ballot in the fall, including a potential constitutional amendment on reproductive rights, in Pontiac, Mich., on August 6, 2022. Sarah Rice/The Washington Post via Getty Im hide caption

toggle caption
Sarah Rice/The Washington Post via Getty Im

The Michigan supreme court set to decide whether voters see abortion on the ballot

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1120365677/1120444415" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

A special commission is reviewing military assets with names tied to the Confederacy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as well as other properties across the country. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption

toggle caption
Seth Wenig/AP

People commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Lady Diana Spencer at the "Flamme de la Liberte" monument in Paris on Wednesday. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images

Princess Diana showed the world how to use celebrity for good

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1120223493/1120223494" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Monday

Mount Swastika is located in a remote part of the Umpqua National Forest outside Eugene, Ore. Named after a local cattle ranch in the early 1900s, the mountain is not well-known in the state, until recently. The mountain will likely be renamed Mount Halo, after a local tribal leader. U.S. Geological Survey hide caption

toggle caption
U.S. Geological Survey

The Amazons Courtesy of Poster House hide caption

toggle caption
Courtesy of Poster House

Discovering the forgotten women of silent cinema

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1115290748/1119882522" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Friday

Thursday

Debbie Harry and Clem Burke, 14th Street, NYC, circa 1976. Courtesy of Chris Stein hide caption

toggle caption
Courtesy of Chris Stein

Against the odds: How Blondie shattered the conventions of punk and pop

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1117468260/1119480866" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Hokyoung Kim

Tuesday

Adolf Hitler's aerial bombardment of the Soviet city of Stalingrad destroyed many of the city's roads and structures, which proved advantageous for the Soviet Union in urban warfare. Keystone/Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption
Keystone/Getty Images

Sunday

Cicely Tyson Mandalit del Barco/NPR News hide caption

toggle caption
Mandalit del Barco/NPR News

A new exhibit in LA explores the complicated history of Black Cinema

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1118604068/1118669957" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Friday

Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983. DLL/AP hide caption

toggle caption
DLL/AP

How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1118365560/1118365561" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Thursday

Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938. Family Affair Films, US Holocaust Memorial Museum hide caption

toggle caption
Family Affair Films, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1117995023/1118274659" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

People line up to receive the monkeypox vaccine. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption
Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Talking about monkeypox? Then you should be talking about sex

Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1117754547/1118521085" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Isabel Seliger

Monday