On Memorial Day, it is fitting to recognize names and history. Words cannot capture the enormity of the nation’s sacrifices, nor the immensity of its gratitude.

Washington’s letter to the town council ... There are also mentions of George Weedon, who was a brigadier general in the Continental Army; Fontaine Maury, who served as Fredericksburg’s ...

Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” ...

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...