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It was Ronald Reagan who started the trend of using pop songs. Chris Willman, the chief music critic at Variety, gives a short history of 200 years of campaign music.

Alice Hoffman's new novel is a fictionalized account of the painter's early life and family, including the eccentric mother who raised him on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas.

VanDerveer, in her 38th season as Stanford coach, passed Duke's Coach K's record. She's helped the women's sport come a long way since she started her college basketball career over 50 years ago.

Civil rights trails across the South have proven to be an economic driver. In Mississippi, there's a new push to better tell that history. And now, the federal government is getting involved.

Gov. Ron DeSantis praised Moody, who has served as Florida's attorney general since 2019, for fighting against policies he described as part of the Democratic Party's "woke agenda."

The gleaming stainless steel arch in St. Louis is, officially, a monument to westward expansion. But in The Gateway Arch: A Biography, Tracy Campbell argues that the monument's meaning is more complicated. He tells NPR about the controversies, the clout and the costs behind the 630-foot structure.

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower envisioned the Kennedy Center as an "artistic mecca." President Trump recently told reporters he'd never seen a show there.

Her speech, at only 38 minutes, was the 12th-shortest in modern history, while her opponent holds the records for the three longest acceptance speeches in American political history.