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Our body's largest organ is the skin, something many people fail to realize. The history of skin is the history of humanity and reveals much about who we are. Nina Jablonski's new book, Skin: A Natural History, takes a closer look at this intimate and universal subject.

With the prospect of another woman joining the U.S. Supreme Court, it has been a long journey for such representation. Women were often on a shortlist...

Almost a century ago, a law was passed that set up a once-a-decade fight for representation in Congress and the Electoral College after each census. It's meant that one state's win is another's loss.

Sir Ernst Gombrich wrote A Little History of the World in 1936, in German. The book for young readers was translated into 17 languages. Late in life, Gombrich began an English version. That edition is being published this fall by Yale University Press.

Pundits, politicians and journalists are apt to call this chaotic congressional moment unprecedented. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with historian John Farrell about whether that is true.