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“M” is for Mill schools. Textile mill entrepreneurs remade the South Carolina landscape in the late nineteenth century.

“C” is for Charleston Riot (1876).

Actor Richard Bauer reads excerpts from John Hersey's "Hiroshima," an account of six survivors of the atomic bombing of that city. "Hiroshima" was originally an entire issue of THE NEW YORKER magazine (August 1, 1946) and was later published in book form.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London on an angry public debate over whether pedophiles should be publicly identified. Street mobs have forced wrongly accused men into hiding. Police blame lurid accounts of pedophile crimes in the tabloid press.

A new report by the General Accounting Office says that there could be as many as a quarter of a million attempts by computer hackers to access the Defense Department's computer system every year, and more than half of them are successful. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer review news accounts from around the world about the Atlanta Olympics - and the problems the foreign press corps has reported on... problems both large and small.

John Parker was a slave, an abolitionist and a businessman. Recently, his memoirs were discovered and published, providing a vivid account of this remarkable man's life. Actor Mississippi Charles Bevel reads excerpts from Parker's book.

NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the film Shattered Glass, a fictionalized account of the false, overly creative reporting by magazine journalist Stephen Glass.

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Although you probably get tired of hearing us say it, taking a soil sample…