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Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers is convicted of fraud, but his lawyers say he'll appeal. A federal jury Tuesday found Ebbers guilty of organizing the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. Ebbers insisted on the witness stand he didn't know the details of his company's financial decisions.

The NBA has handed down stiff penalties for what some call the worst brawl in the league's history. Commissioner David Stern said the season-long suspension of Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest and other penalties are meant to prevent another incident like that with the Detroit Pistons Friday.

NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on one of the country's few public libraries devoted to African-American culture and history. The Broward County African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been attracting growing crowds ever since it opened two years ago.

Senate hopeful Barack Obama stirs the crowd at the Democratic Convention with stories of equality and hope in America. Obama, an Illinois candidate for Senate and a rising star in his party, turned to his own history in making his most powerful points.

President Bush on Tuesday dismissed efforts at what he called "revisionist history" regarding the war in Iraq, but on Capitol Hill there were more questions about pre-war intelligence and the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. NPR's David Welna reports from the Capitol.

The third, unsung Wright sibling. Some historians say that without her, the famous pioneers of flight might not have gotten off the ground. Yet Orville tried to keep her contributions out of the newspapers and history books. In the next installment of the series "Hidden Treasures," Harriet Baskas tells us why.

The Italian city of Turin is about to take the world stage as the host of the 2006 Winter Olympics, but its citizens seem rather blasé about the event. This northern Italian city is a complex mixture of the old and the modern, and it has seen enough history to be unfazed by a single sporting or media event.

The Supreme Court rules that Texas may keep its Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the state capitol in Austin. The majority opinion said the installment treats the commandments as history. But the court also ruled that two Kentucky counties' displays unconstitutionally promote religion.

Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote died Monday night at age 88. He is best known for his three-volume, 3,000-page history entitled The Civil War: A Narrative, and for narrating Ken Burns' 11-hour PBS series The Civil War. We rebroadcast an interview with Foote from July 27, 1994.

NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Melissa Block read from listeners' letters in response to stories we aired on the theft of Edward Munch's "The Scream," Mike Shuster's final installment of the history of the Middle East and the West, and our point and counterpoint commentaries on the Swift Boat Veterans anti-Kerry TV ads.