Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye.

In honor of Black History Month, Audible is proud to offer a collection of superb original recordings featuring some of the most influential voices in African-American history....

Marketplace is public radio's daily magazine of business and economics.

The Story with Dick Gordon brings the news home - through passionate points of view and personal experiences.

American Public Media's Word for Word is a one-hour weekly program featuring the very best of the nation's recent speeches.

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent.

Americans are going broke in record numbers. In 2005 Congress overhauled the bankruptcy system to stem the tide of filings. What's behind the boom in going bust?

This is the first time that anybody has sued an American corporation in an American court on the grounds that the company's violating human rights in another country.

We delve into the world and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days — ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement.

The American public supports the principle of capital punishment, but there is a growing consensus among Jewish and Christian thinkers — across traditional liberal/conservative lines — that it should be abolished in this country or suspended while the system for imposing it is made more just.

A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning.

Is it fair to the child to be born into a family where one or both parents has a serious illness?

An unlikely corporation, McDonald's, has taken the lead in the campaign for animal welfare....

Finding Home: Fifty Years of International Adoption explores the pull of adoption across lives and borders.

For many, globalization has meant rich countries getting richer at the expense of the poor. Today, it's not that simple.

Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline.

Investors, entrepeneurs, and innovators say solutions to global warming lie in the frenetic world of the capitolist marketplace.

After an historic, generation-long prison expansion, American prisons are now releasing more than 600,000 inmates each year.

Questions about our origins as a species have been plaguing us as humans, prodding us as scientists and dividing us as Americans for more than a hundred years...

Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper.

Why are so many mentally ill Americans behind bars....

Supermax prisons are icons of America?s tough penal system....

Is there such a thing as the Muslim world?

Every year, a chunk of land almost the size of Manhattan turns into open water in Louisiana.

In 1970, nearly half the women in the United States had paying jobs, but most women worked for low pay.