Marked by turmoil, tragedy and triumph, 1968 was a roller coaster. Political protests hit an international crescendo, ...

Fifty years ago Friday, on Dec. 21, 1968, Apollo 8 lifted off, marking the first time humans left low Earth orbit and flew to the moon. This was the second manned spaceflight of the Apollo program, ...

That autumn night at Estadio Olimpico Universitario might not have been so memorable if Tommie Smith and John Carlos had merely each raised a black-gloved fist into the air. The mournful way in which ...

In this year’s presidential election, terms such as “law and order” and “the silent majority” have been heard fairly often from Donald Trump and some of his supporters. Those phrases hark back to an ...

On a crisp California afternoon in early December 1968, a square-jawed, mild-mannered Stanford researcher named Douglas Engelbart took the stage at San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium and proceeded to ...

Two political issues that recurred during Robert Kennedy's life — the fight against Communism, and the struggle for racial equality — exploded in 1968. A growing number of Americans despaired over ...

Late at night, early in the morning, an anxious population worries about where the country is headed. The United States is mired in an unwinnable war. Washington is in disarray, its international ...

Almost fifty years ago, on March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson stunned everyone by announcing that he would not run for a second term as President. Johnson had gone on television at nine o’clock that ...

In the snows of New Hampshire 50 years ago, youthful volunteers with long hair and beards were encouraged to cut their locks and "get clean for Gene." That was U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, a ...

With the Democratic National Convention returning to Chicago this month, media historian Michael Socolow warns against drawing parallels between 1968 and now. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon. An ...

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