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At the University of Maryland this week, National History Day 2005 is taking place. Students from across the country have gathered to present their papers, exhibits, documentaries, and performances. We hear from Emma Bennett, who performs as folk singer Molly Jackson; from Zoe Ackerman, who models herself after a Quaker who teaches freed slaves to read and write; and from Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven, whose project is about the news boys strike of 1899.

Joseph Horowitz, author of Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall, talks with Robert Siegel about the past, present and future of classical music in this country.

Problems with papal succession have dogged the church throughout its history. In the past it has led to wars, schisms and intrigue. Often, bribery, poison or the dagger decided who became pope.