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

Every year, the National Film Registry adds 25 films to its collection to be preserved for posterity. Selections for 2025 range from The Thing to White Christmas.

In one family, three generations of American women explore how choices around becoming mothers have changed at the same time the U.S. birth rate has dropped.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features stories on a national organization working to confront pancreatic cancer, how homelessness disproportionately affects queer youth and the work, sacrifices and rewards of college athletics.

In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French "cravate") back to the battlefields of 17th century Europe.

Two Oklahoma sites are now part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, medicine and psychology.