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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lillian Guerra, a University of Florida professor of Cuban history, about this week's protests in Cuba and the role of U.S. foreign policy in the nation's struggles.

Critics have praised the building and mostly panned the exhibitions. Do they not get it? Or is the museum just not intended for them? Is there another way to present history and culture in a museum? The National Museum of the American Indian nears its first anniversary.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Andy Horowitz, author of "Katrina: A History 1915-2015," about misconceptions post-Hurricane Katrina and his assertion that what happened in 2005 was entirely predictable.

NPR's Don Gonyea talks with Gary Gillette — Chair Of The Board Of Directors at Friends of Historic Hamtramck Stadium -– about the efforts to restore an historic Negro League ballpark in Michigan.

Both a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, Byrd died Monday. He was longest-serving member in congressional history.

The audacity of Tyler, the Creator's latest release might shoulder-shimmy right past you without an abbreviated crash course on the oh-so-fraught history between rap and dance.

Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS and Fuerza Regida's 111XPANTIA hold down the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on this week's Billboard 200, making this the first week in history with Spanish-language albums in the chart's top two spots.

Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei explore the history of the filibuster and how it impacts American legislation and politics.

Her Grammy win for Cowboy Carter will rightly be seen as historic. But for the artist, it's part of a grander thesis long in the making.

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.