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  • A small group of 8- to 12-year-olds learn about how soldiers trained for the Civil War.
    Picking Sides At Day Camp: Confederacy Or Union?
    At typical summer day camps, kids swim, do arts and crafts and face off on the soccer field. But at a one-day program in North Carolina, 8- to 12-year-olds take sides in the Civil War.
  • A policeman helps a public transport driver to cross a flooded street due to heavy rain caused by cyclone Tauktae in Mumbai.
    Cyclone Hits India On Deadliest Day Of Pandemic
    At least 16 people have been killed by Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful storm to hit India's west coast in decades. Among those evacuated to higher ground were COVID-19 patients.
  • Recalling an American Riot on V-J Day
    Robert Siegel talks with Charles Fracchia, founder of the San Francisco Historical Society and author of City By the Bay: A History of San Francisco 1945 to the Present, about deadly riots that took place in San Francisco on VJ Day.
  • A woman walks amid both open and closed shops during a Sunday morning stroll at the Butte Montmartre in Paris, in July. Under France's Byzantine rules on Sunday trading, shops at the top of the hill are in a designated tourist area and so can open, but those at the bottom cannot.
    France Rethinks The Sanctity Of Its Day Of Rest
    For more than a century, French law has allowed stores to open on Sundays only under specific conditions. It also tightly controls other types of Sunday work. Several stores are now challenging that ban, as people question the tradition amid a languishing economy and a 24/7 world.
  • Founded in Los Angeles in 1960s, <a href="http://www.npr.org/artists/15446942/the-doors">The Doors</a> (left to right: drummer John Densmore, keyboard player Ray Mansarek, vocalist Jim Morrison and guitarist Robby Krieger) took their name from Aldous Huxley's 1954 book, <em>The Doors of Perception</em>.
    The Doors Prove Strange Days Are Still With Us
    Even after all these years, people are still drawn to the music of The Doors. Frontman Jim Morrison is responsible for a lot of that, but author Greil Marcus says what really made the band magnetic was something deeper.
  • Penny Hoarders Hope For The Day The Penny Dies
    A pre-1982 penny has about 2 cents worth of copper in it. Some people hoard them, betting that the U.S. will kill the penny and then it will be legal to melt them down and they can make a killing.
  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    Guess the celebrities from listening to their attempts to carry a tune, some more successful than others.
  • Tips for perfecting your burger this Labor Day
    NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with food writer and restaurateur George Motz about how to make the perfect burger for your labor day cookout.
  • The Importance Of Diet In The First 1,000 Days
    New research from the International Food Policy Research Institute looks at the economic rationale for spending money to avoid stunting. Physical and psychological stunting occurs when children receive inadequate nutrition in their first 1,000 days of life. Senior researcher John Hoddinott talks with guest host Don Gonyea about the findings.
  • A resident surveys the damage following clashes in New Delhi on Wednesday. At least 20 people have died in three days of violence.
    In New Delhi, Days Of Deadly Violence And Riots
    Clashes began Sunday, when local officials from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party vowed to clear anti-government protesters from the capital.
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