Freedom of the press. The right to assembly. And the right to free speech. The first amendment includes some of the most ...

To this day, America continues to grapple with the legacy of slavery. On this week’s episode, we explore the creation of slave patrols, which were created to control the movement of enslaved Black ...

Iran has been here before. For decades the country has gone through cycles of protest and repression at the hands of the ...

Throughline producers Cristina Kim and Anya Steinberg listen to the music they couldn’t include in our episode on the fall and rebirth of Chile’s democracy, “Democracy Dies in a Day” (  To access ...

NPR Researcher Barbara Van Woerkom used documents and public databases to find 1,200 vets who participated in World War II secret chemical... This week, NPR reported that the Department of Veterans ...

In 1871, Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina got so bad that the governor sent a telegram to President Ulysses S. Grant warning that he was facing a state of war. Grant sent him Amos Akerman: a ...