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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson of Johns Hopkins University about the long history of laws targeting drag in the U.S.

Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

How do Supreme Court decisions really get made? Test your knowledge here.

Americans woke up today to something that's been hidden from view during the war in Iraq -- flag-draped caskets of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. A policy dating back to the first Bush administration bans media coverage of caskets arriving at military bases. The photographs were released to First Amendment activist Russ Kick, who had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get the images. NPR's Melissa Block examines the "no photo" policy, and what it means for a country at war to witness the return of their dead.

"Tested" from NPR’s podcast Embedded and CBC in Canada examines the 100-year history of the practice of sex testing female athletes in elite sports.

In his new novel, The Plot Against America, Philp Roth imagines a 1940's fascist America led by flying ace and staunch isolationist Charles Lindbergh. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Roth about his invented history.

The country's first national park has opted to change the name after research uncovered the involvement of Gustavus Doane in an attack that killed 173 Native Americans.

High school students in Alexandria, Va., honor Black history with art, dance and theater.

Several of the players marked firsts for the sport's history, while for Serena Williams, the tournament may have been her last match.