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In his new work of "applied blunderology" Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean journalist and linguistics specialist Michael Erard categorizes blunders, investigates why we make them and serves up a generous amount of slips, malapropisms and even Bushisms.

The Color Purple is now the second-biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.

Before her family went into hiding, Anne Frank gave away some of her toys to her neighbor, Toosje Kupers. The gift included a set of marbles, now on display at at an art gallery in Rotterdam. NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to note the childhood gift.

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just before it became the United States.

A period drama, a Supreme Court case and voice our film critic hadn't heard in decades.

Union Gen. Gordon Granger set up his headquarters in Galveston, Texas, and famously signed an order June 19, 1865, "All slaves are free." President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday last year.

The GBH News podcast What Is Owed? considers the issue of reparations in the cradle of the American Revolution — and the first American colony to legalize slavery — Massachusetts.

Tom Smothers was the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium.

When he takes over, in the fall of 2027, he will be the youngest music director in the orchestra's 133-year history.

The Hotel Ilan in Poland has a renowned and troubled history for the country's Jewish community. Now, it has found a new purpose helping Ukrainians fleeing the war Russia has wrought on their country.