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In this week's StoryCorps, a mother talks with her son about how she overcame her addiction to drugs.

A conservative group is planning cash prizes for State Department employees who fight DEI and help deport migrants.

Every four years, the U.S. gets a look at how students around the country are doing in civics and history education. The latest snapshot has educators and legislators worried.

Black History Month often invokes the past, but Black history is made every day. We asked NPR listeners to tell us about local Black figures making a difference in their communities.

Japan's reki-jo, or "history girls," love learning about shoguns' castles and samurai battles, and they idolize historical figures like rock stars. Some observers believe this is more than just a trend: The reki-jo subculture signals a kind of empowerment.

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.

In a new podcast, Vivian Yoon dissects her personal stake in K-pop, and how her obscure childhood passion has evolved into a billion-dollar industry.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with history professor Juan Cole, author of Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture, and History of Shiite Islam, about the attacks of Sunnis on Shiites in Iraq and elsewhere. Cole also talks about the Zarqawi letter, which he translated.

A new PBS series traces the history of the people, wildlife and geology of the Appalachian mountains. The creators of Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People discuss the rich stories that have emerged from one of Earth's oldest mountain ranges.

In A People's History of Sports in the United States, Dave Zirin offers a witty alternative history of America as seen through the games its people played.