Journalism

Margaret Warner speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald about his ...

Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John F...

In this 2004 interview, Edwidge Danticat talks about her new novel The Dew Breaker, the s...

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case desegregated America's public sch...

Ray Suarez speaks with three historians--Richard Brookhiser, Ron Chernow and Jan Lewis--a...

Jim Lehrer speaks with former President Bill Clinton about the 2004 presidential campaign...

Jeffrey Brown talks with author Judy Blume about her career writing for young people.

To mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Jeffrey Brown speaks with civil rights author...

Jeffrey Brown looks at the newly-opened National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, whi...

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that applying the death penalty to offenders under the ag...

Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour, discusses the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana, June 6...

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court Friday after a 24-year t...

In a prelude to the expected battle over the next Supreme Court justice nomination, an hi...

This segment of the PBS NewsHour features a look at the past, present, and future of Sili...

Following the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks at age 92, two civil rights leader...

Congress is working to renew key provisions of the USA Patriot Act before they expire at ...

Taylor Branch, author of At Canaan's Edge, the final installment of his three-volume biog...

Right to Die RulingRay Suarez reports on the national impact of today's U.S. Supreme Cour...

PBS NewsHour's Jim Lehrer interviews Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about the lawfulne...

A resolution was introduced in the Senate today by Democrats that rejects the president's...

Author Geraldine Brooks has taken the mostly-absent father of the March family at the cen...

Ray Suarez reports on the FBI raid on Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's offic...

The Supreme Court decided two cases today impacting death row inmates. Ray Suarez speaks ...

This is an interview with historian John Hope Franklin about his autobiography.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that evidence may be used even when police enter a suspe...

The NewsHour's economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the stock scandals embroili...

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced Monday to more than 24 years in prison fo...

Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center and Jeff Mi...

In this 2007 interview, dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor talks to Jeffrey Brown about...

Although slavery was abolished in New York City in 1827, residents remained divided on th...

In Einstein: His Life and Universe, biographer Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginativ...

In his book How Doctors Think, Dr. Jerome Groopman provides insight on the thought proces...

In Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, author Mic...

In the biography Partners in Power: Nixon and Kissinger, historian Robert Dallek highligh...

At the age of 59, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov is still dancing. He recently opened ...

A book conversation about the lives and dreams of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. in the 1...

Wiretap ExpansionPresident Bush signed the Protect America Act on Sunday, expanding the a...

A NewsHour report on Ammie McRae Jenkins, founder of the Sandhills Family Heritage Associ...

In this October 2007 interview, Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his recent trip t...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh renovated its dinosaur exhibit to pr...

Scientists have coined a new term, geroscience, to describe research that aims to slow do...

Renowned African-American writers Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham di...

In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Loving v. Virginia that laws against inte...

A half century after Chinua Achebe penned Things Fall Apart, Jeffrey Brown discusses Afri...

Jeffrey Brown takes a look at poetry in prisons.

In Shishmaref, Alaska -- a 600-person village 20 miles south of the Arctic Circle -- resi...

In The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester tells the story of Joseph Needham, an eccent...

Beyond BarsHow the head of Arizona's prison system is working to reform the state's corre...

In this discussion, author Tony Horwitz talks about his new book, A Voyage Long and Stran...

For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more e...