Jan 17 Iconic inaugural addresses, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama By Julia Griffin As we wait to hear Trump’s speech Friday, NewsHour has prepared a compilation of iconic and inspirational highlights from inaugural addresses past. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch 2:28 300 years old and this lighthouse is still a keeper By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we visit the nation’s first lighthouse, which opened off Boston’s coast 300 years ago. Today, the lighthouse keeper is Sally Snowman, the first woman in a long list of caretakers. She describes… Continue watching
Jul 07 Louis Pasteur's risky move to save a boy from almost certain death By Dr. Howard Markel Louis Pasteur was hard at work developing a rabies vaccine, using dogs as his experimental subjects. Up until now, however, he had not administered the vaccine to a human being. Continue reading
Apr 30 Was Walt Whitman a follower of the 'Paleo' diet? By Kamala Kelkar The celebrated American poet was not a fan of vegetarians. Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch 10:05 Before Hillary Clinton, these women tried breaking the 'highest glass ceiling' By PBS News Hour With Hillary Clinton as front-runner for the Democratic nomination, the possibility of a female president is closer than ever. But Clinton is far from the first woman to shoot for the Oval Office. In her new book, “The Highest Glass… Continue watching
Feb 02 Watch 5:42 New York Times unveils lost snapshots of black history By PBS News Hour The New York Times has begun to unpack never-before-seen photographs that help fill in a portrait of African-American history. Why did these images of historic moments and well-known figures go unpublished for so long? Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Rachel… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 6:53 Keeping the memory of WWI alive with plans for a national memorial By PBS News Hour Millions of Americans who served during the Great War may soon be memorialized in the nation’s capital. The winning design by 25-year-old architect Joe Weishaar was selected from more than 360 proposals for the National World War I Memorial in… Continue watching
Jan 26 Watch 9:32 What past elections can teach us about fear politics By PBS News Hour Fear of terrorism has been a recurring theme of the current presidential race -- from grave callbacks to November’s Paris attacks to promises of bans on Muslim immigrants -- but the tactic is nothing new in American politics. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch 1:29 When MLK Jr. lamented 'we have not learned the simple art of living together' By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, the Nobel Prize Foundation released the full audio recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Peace Prize acceptance speech. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch In 'Mercy Street,' Civil War trauma meets modern medical drama By PBS News Hour "Mercy Street," a new original series on PBS, tells the story of a one-time hotel turned Union army hospital, and is based on memoirs and letters of real Civil War medical staff. Jeffrey Brown takes a look at how its… Continue watching