MPR News Presents

Special programming from MPR News.

History Forum: The history of fake news in the U.S.
History professor Michelle Nickerson speaks at the Minnesota Historical Society’s “History Forum” about “The History of Fake News in America.”
Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio
Ray Suarez hosts APM Reports documentary: “Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio.”
Aspen Ideas Festival: 'Correcting America's Historical Memory'
Pulitzer Prize-winning historians David Blight and Annette Gordon-Reed spoke in a 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival session titled, "Correcting America's Historical Memory."
The First Family of Radio: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts
This APM Reports documentary, "The First Family of Radio: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts," features rarely heard archival audio and explores how the Roosevelts revolutionized political communication in America.
National Science Foundation documentary: Listening to the Arctic
The Arctic is warming faster than nearly everywhere else on Earth, bringing with it new opportunities and unprecedented risks — environmental, social, economic, cultural, legal and political.
Intelligence Squared debate: Don't eat anything with a face
Under "stay-at-home" requirements, people are buying more groceries for cooking their meals at home and many of us are thinking more often about what we like to eat. The Intelligence Squared series hosted a debate about one thing many people like to eat — meat.
Humankind documentary: 'Ida B. Wells' Battle to Uncover the Truth'
A documentary from the Humankind series: “Ida B. Wells’ Battle to Uncover the Truth.”
Voices of Vietnam documentary: A Lost Homeland
A documentary about the Vietnamese refugees who fled their country after the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.
Thomas Edison: How the light bulb changed everything
Historian Ernest Freeberg of the University of Tennessee talks about his book, "The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America."