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Singer-songwriter Steve Earle has a long history of folk music, country music — and controversy. His latest album, Jerusalem, is creating buzz for its political messages. Meredith Ochs has our review.

Read how the 'Prairie Diaries' project in Kansas came about and review tips on starting a similar historical project in your community.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's Brent Leggs and Maxwell Brown Chapel AME Church's Juanda about grants to preserve African-American cultural sites.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist and professor DeNeen Brown about her new project, Printing Hate.

The Supreme Court has made history a central test of whether a gun control law is constitutional. That has meant a boom in demand for gun law historians, who are digging up forgotten old gun laws.

If Braverman lets go of the sled, the dogs will race on without her. David Bianculli reviews Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. Hannah-Jones tells a more inclusive version of history in The 1619 Project.

The nation's first public pools were originally built to get rowdy, scantily clad youths out of rivers and lakes and away from the public eye. They eventually became hotbeds of social change. Historian Jeff Wiltse traces public pools' contentious history in Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America.

Trump's golden sneakers turned up a rich history of political footwear debacles. And we learned about ring kissing, presidential auctions and reality shows set on other planets.

Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian skier Miro Tabanelli pulled off the six-and-a-half-rotation maneuver in competition for the first time in history.

The seaweed blobs are part of a 5,000-mile long bloom of algae known as sargassum. Blooms are common, but scientists say they're getting bigger — and this one might be the largest in history.