Apr 12 Watch Civil War Enthusiasts Reenact the Opening Shots of the War Civil War enthusiasts repeated the opening shots of the war at Fort Sumter. Continue watching
Apr 12 Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise EmbedVideo(325, 482, 304); An average of 155 million tweets are posted on the social networking site Twitter each day, the social media giant tweeted last week. In just one minute, an average of 35 hours of… Continue reading
Apr 12 Quiz: NASA Announces New Homes for Space Shuttle Fleet By Larisa Epatko NASA marked the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch and the 50th anniversary of the first human in space -- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961 -- by naming the final destinations of its retiring space shuttle fleet. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Social Media Curation Tool Separates News From Noise Startup Storyful explores how to separate the news from the noise in social media. Continue watching
Apr 11 The Civil War: Between the Battles April 12, 2011, marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the U.S. Civil War, the deadliest war in American History. To mark the anniversary TIME published The Civil War: An Illustrated History. Continue reading
Apr 08 Around the Nation Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation. Continue reading
Apr 08 NATO Confirms Air Strike Killed Libyan Rebels, Aftershock Kills 3 in Japan Libyan rebel fighters head for the frontline in the desert outside the town of Ajdabiya on April 8, 2011, as rebels indicated the front remained somewhere between Ajdabiya and the oil town of Brega, which is under the control… Continue reading
Apr 07 John Merrow on 'The Influence of Teachers,' Education Debate Many school district superintendents -- and the mayors who appointed them -- are demanding teachers be held up to closer scrutiny and tougher accountability while facing possible replacement. In certain cases, even as some school leaders are moving on, parents… Continue reading
Apr 07 With Government on Brink of Shutdown, 'Narrow' Differences Remain Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, left, and House Speaker John Boehner speak to reporters outside the White House following a meeting with the president. Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Congressional leaders have taken budget negotiations to… Continue reading
Apr 06 Watch 'Hunger' for Success a Driving Force in Belva Davis' Storied Journalism Career Belva Davis, the first African-American woman television journalist on the West Coast, speaks with Judy Woodruff about her pioneering -- and sometimes difficult -- career in broadcast news and her new memoir. This story was done in partnership with KQED… Continue watching