Next year will mark America’s 250th birthday – but historians say we might not have a nation to celebration if it hadn’t been for South Carolina.

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NPR's Student Podcast Challenge received nearly 2,000 entries from all around the country. Here are some of this year's best middle school submissions.

And most American men of the postwar era would have cheered him on. They turned I, the Jury into a phenomenal bestseller that revolutionized the publishing industry. A modest hardback success in 1947, ...

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Tucked away on Ohio’s northern shore sits a natural wonderland so magnificent yet somehow overlooked that it feels like stumbling upon buried treasure in your own backyard. Maumee Bay State Park in ...

Over the past decade, Paulding County has invested in renewable energy projects, like wind farms. A former county commissioner says it's promoted community development there. This article was ...