Today we tell about Charles M.Schulz who wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts" for half a century.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Today we tell about two women who helped change the world of sports, golfer Betty Jameson and basketball coach Kay Yow.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Today we tell about the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, who died earlier this week.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Today we tell about one of the most influential social scientists of the last century the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Today we report about two scientists, J.Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, who helped lead the world into the nuclear age.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Today we talk about a method that helps provide low-income people with the financial services they need to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Today we look up into the skies to explore the past and present of the tallest buildings in the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Since it is Christmas today we thought we would take time to listen to some of the new offerings.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Today we tell about a wave of crime taking place in the warm waters off the east coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Today we tell about one of the most important scientific discoveries of the last century -- the development of HeLa cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Today we tell about an artist in Washington whose work can be found on the sides of several city buildings.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Today we tell about a woman who became famous for her activities in government, the media and the arts.

VOA: special.2010.08.08