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A new report found that 45 states have insufficient or non-existent lesson coverage of Reconstruction in schools.

Librarian Nancy Pearl gets a jump on the winter solstice and Seasonal Affective Disorder (or SAD), that period of the year when many readers fall into a rut of ill humor. She shares her picks for books that beat the winter-weather blues with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Summer is the season we can finally tackle the books that have been piling up on our desks and forming small mountains on the floor. Book critic Alan Cheuse offers a selection of some of the best books of late spring and early summer, and some classics that are always present in his literary landscape.

Senator Joe Morrissey, a Democrat from Richmond, introduced the bill.

Even a real poetry lover might find a 1,132-page anthology a bit daunting. But The Oxford Book of American Poetry is less for heavy lifting and more for browsing, in pursuit of old and new poetic pals.

A new book skewers today's mindless corporate culture via the e-mails of Martin Lukes, a fictitious, ambitious, forty-something middle manager who works for a company that makes nothing in particular.

Voters in five congressional districts will be selecting candidates, plus a handful of local elections will also be on the ballot.

Johnson's novel, Invisible Things, is set on one of Jupiter's moons. Nick Quah takes stock of some podcasts that draw on reality TV. Booster's film Fire Island was inspired by Pride and Prejudice.

It's been 50 years since the Watergate break-in precipitated the greatest political scandal of its time.

Operation Ceasefire started in Boston, where law enforcement agencies formed partnerships with community groups in an effort to address the issue of youth gun violence. Since that time, it's a model that's been replicated in several cities and a handful of states.