At age 50, National History Day keeps pushing students to seek difficult truths through research
Middle and high school students across the United States are taking ownership of their history educations through a nonprofit that encourages young people to rigorously examine the past.
PBS boasts slate of new shows unaffected by strikes, which it hopes will draw viewers in
There's a broadcast television network offering plenty of original programming this fall, although it often flies under the radar.
'Ear Hustle' podcast co-host is free from San Quentin prison
A co-host of โEar Hustle,โ the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, has been released from San Quentin State Prison, a year after Californiaโs governor commuted his sentence.
Holocaust memorial: Kristallnacht photos were already seen
Israelโs Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germanyโs 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week.
'Philly on Fire,' 'Bella!' tie for Library of Congress prize
Documentaries about feminist leader and politician Bella Abzug and a deadly 1985 Philadelphia police bombing are the winners of this yearโs Library of Congress film prize.
Cha-ching! Biden embraces his election-year fundraising role
President Joe Biden is picking up the pace of his high-dollar fundraisers for Democratic candidates and party committees in the closing weeks before Election Day in November.
New this week: 'The Handmaidโs Tale' and 'Goodnight Mommy'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include albums from Little Big Town and Marcus Mumford, โThe Handmaidโs Taleโ returns with high stakes for the future of Gilead, and twin brothers go to their motherโs house for a stay but find something is off about her in the film โGoodnight Mommy.โ.
David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89
David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.
New this week: 'Only Murders in the Building,' 'More Power'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include a new album from Imagine Dragons, the reuniting of โHome Improvementโ sitcom buddies Tim Allen and Richard Karn for โMore Powerโ and the return of Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as unlikely crime-solving New York City neighbors in Huluโs โOnly Murders in the Building.โ.
New this week: Camila Cabello, Tony Hawk and 'Tokyo Vice'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include Camila Cabello's third album, a documentary about the life of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, and Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe starring in โTokyo Vice,โ a HBO Max crime drama.
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Award-winning Civil War historian Stephen Oates dies at 85
Stephen Oates has died after a life that saw him become an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton, William Faulkner and others.
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Luke Combs, Dan + Shay celebrated by peers at ACM Honors
Dan + Shay, Luke Combs, Rascal Flatts and more country artists celebrated alongside prominent songwriters, producers and industry leaders at the Academy of Country Music Honors awards show.
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Picture book based on โAmerican Anthemโ to come out in June
President Joe Biden reacts as he delivers his inaugural address on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. NEW YORK โ Composer Gene Scheer, whose song โAmerican Anthemโ was quoted by President Joe Biden during his inaugural address, is returning the favor. The picture book โAmerican Anthemโ will be released June 29, Penguin Young Readers announced Thursday. It will feature Scheer's lyrics and illustrations by 13 artists, including Fahmida Azim, Matt Faulkner, Veronica Jamison and Christine Almeda.
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PBS chief defends filmmaker Ken Burns, touts diversity
FILE - Ken Burns, director of the PBS documentary series "Country Music," takes part in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Speaking Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, to the Television Critics Association in a virtual Q&A, PBS chief executive Paula Kerger rejected a filmmakers claim that public TVs long relationship with Burns has come at the expense of diversity. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ The chief executive of PBS rejected a filmmakerโs argument that public TV's 40-year relationship with documentarian Ken Burns has come at the expense of diversity. โWe create lots of opportunities for many filmmakers,โ Kerger said. "The stuff thatโs coming up is incredibly diverse in every sense of the meaning of that word,โ Burns said.
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'60 Minutes' keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers
FILE - "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl poses for a photo in her office at the "60 Minutes" offices, in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. It's not the first time that's been said about โ60 Minutesโ since its 1968 debut. After executive producer Bill Owens turned the show primarily over to COVID-19 coverage last spring, โ60 Minutesโ has returned to its traditional format while being focused on being timely. โ60 Minutesโ this fall has featured interviews with fired government cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs, former President Barack Obama and poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Original executive producer Don Hewitt often ran โ60 Minutesโ as an island unto itself.
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Yusef Salaam writing memoir about his wrongful imprisonment
NEW YORK โ One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out in the spring. The five Black and Latino teens were coerced into confessing to a rape they didnโt commit in 1989. Ken Burns made a documentary about them and Ava DuVernay directed a Netflix series. โOne of the most powerful lessons I learned while being wrongfully incarcerated was that instead of going through something, I was going to grow through something," Salaam said in a statement. โPunching the Air,โ co-written by Ibi Zoboi, came out in September.