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Museum visitors discovered nooses hanging on Smithsonian grounds in the same week that two men were killed by a white supremacist in Portland and LeBron James' Los Angeles home was vandalized. Carol Anderson, the chair of African-American studies at Emory University, shares how she is thinking about this moment in our country, and offers her thoughts on the most constructive path forward.

A Christmas Day battle at Fort Ticonderoga between Massachusetts and Pennsylvania regiments in the Continental Army has long been a mystery. Now, new documents detail what happened and why.

When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way … till the Jets decide you're not coming back next season.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with María Ramírez, deputy managing editor of eldiario.es, about the recent rise of the far right in Spain, and how that's impacting the general political landscape.

A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.

An executive order signed by President Trump making English the official language of the U.S. has immigrant advocates worried the move risks real harm for people with limited English proficiency.

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

A Boston church along the city's Freedom Trail has unveiled a monument to the more than 200 slaves once held by members of the congregation.

This year, off-screen tweets may end up swaying the Oscars race. But real-world events and people have been shaping the awards for decades.

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ.