Walt Whitman: the year of his birth, 1819

This week we have a discussion presented by the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, and is titled "Walt Whitman: the year of his birth, 1819". Our speakers are...

Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust

Transformative Religious Experience and Empathy for Future Selves

Manufacturing Authenticity: The Idea of ‘Mexican’ Food in Diana Kennedy and Rick Bayless

Poetry with Carmen Bugan and A.E. Stallings

Primo Levi: Testimony of an Auschwitz Survivor

The Radical 'Possibilities' of Black Studies

Poetry with Katherine Hollander and Naomi Shihab Nye

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Madness in Jacobean England: The Asylum and the Playhouse

How New Mexico's governor got big things done

New Mexico’s Democratic governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has a robust list of progressive achievements – including making her state the first in the U.S. to offer free universal childcare. The...

Barney Frank is remembered as funny and fierce, a fighter for underdogs

Frank fought for civil rights, affordable housing and women’s rights, Rep. Jim McGovern said at the service. And he fought for gay rights, "not only because he was gay, but...

How beer fueled the American Revolution

Colonists debated freedom and democracy over beers at taverns like Boston's Green Dragon. The tavern hosted secret meetings where Paul Revere and others organized rebellion — including the Boston Tea...

Mayor Michelle Wu on Boston as a place that fights for family and community

During the 2025 WBUR Festival, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu spoke with WBUR Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing and Sharman Sacchetti, political reporter & co-host of WCVB's On The Record about...

Thousands of dead squid piling up on Provincetown beaches is normal, officials say

Thousands of squid washed ashore in the beaches of Provincetown over the weekend. But officials said the mass die-off is part of their natural life cycle.

Gordon S. Wood, influential scholar of the American Revolution, dies after being hit by a car in R.I.

Wood died Sunday at age 92 after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island, according to police. Wood wrote many prize-winning books...

As schools turn away from screens, what does that mean for students who use assistive technology?

There's been a sharp turn away from screen use in classrooms across the U.S. in recent months. Some students with learning differences who use assistive technology worry they could be...

The biggest winners and surprises at the 2026 Tony Awards

Qween Jean won Best Costume Design for "Cats: The Jellicle Ball," becoming the first openly transgender person to win a Tony.

What to expect from Game 3 of the NBA finals

For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are hosting their first NBA Finals home game at Madison Square Garden.