Meet the teachers who are paid NOT to teach.

Gibsonton, Florida: Where the Sideshow Went to Retire

A field guide for making radio.

In a special Mother’s Day podcast, we’re bringing you Melissa’s story, as she told it live at The Moth.

How much does an Olympic gold medal really change things for a teenager in Flint? Listen to Claressa Shields’ story.

Throughout American history, only 14 VPs have ever gone on to the presidency. The rest have been mostly forgotten. And not many people would remember the name Alben Barkley, except for two things: his nickname, the “Veep,” and the remarkable circumstances of his death.

Throughout American history, one of the most important job qualifications for the office of President has been the ability to deliver a speech that will rally the people.

Three stories from our series Contenders: Portraits of America’s Most Original Presidential Candidates… who never won.

Our diarist Melissa Rodriguez tells her story live on stage at the The Moth. Hear her story on this week’s episode of The Moth Radio Hour.

In our latest podcast, we catch up with Melissa, who recorded a diary about being a teen mom in 1996.

20 years ago, NPR’s All Things Considered began running my occasional series, Teenage Diaries… which then grew up to become …

On September 8th, 1906, New York’s Bronx Zoo unveiled a new exhibit that would attract thousands of visitors. Inside a cage, in the monkey house, was a man.

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were born in New York City. Both were adopted as infants and raised by loving families. When they were 35 years old they met for the first time and found they were “identical strangers.”

As a teenager, Frankie was a high school football star whose picture was in his hometown newspaper every week. Years after graduating, Frankie was back in the paper—as a criminal. In his new audio diary, Frankie takes a recorder along as he tries to repair his relationship with his family.

Football, Frankie said, had completely changed him. He was no longer seen as a loser. But the same couldn’t be said for the Valley Head Tigers. This week on The Radio Diaries Podcast, listen to Frankie’s teenage diary.

Four years after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he became president of South Africa. And yet, those 4 years were among the bloodiest and most painful for all South Africans – black and white – as they struggled toward the transition to majority rule.

Audio diaries from officers who work behind bars at North Carolina’s Polk Youth Institution.

While working on our documentary, Mandela: An Audio History, we stumbled across the only known recording of Nelson Mandela during his 27 years in prison. Hear the story behind the tape on this episode of the Radio Diaries Podcast.

Do you remember the first podcast you ever fell in love with?

Through their diaries, Matthew and Judge Jeremiah tell the same story from two different sides of the bench.

Bridgette McGee is unearthing everything she can about her grandfather’s life – and his death.

Now on the Radio Diaries Podcast: As a teenager, Kamari Ridgle was a drug dealer and drive-by shooter until a near-death experience led him to his true love…accounting.

Meet George F. Johnson, President of the Endicott Johnson Corporation, and one of the nation’s leading ‘welfare capitalists.’ Plus, What the LeBron?

“What I have here is an envelope on which this girl Nicole wrote down instructions on how to kiss. It says: ‘pucker lips, slowly open mouth, slowly slide tongue in, repeat steps 1, 2, and 3.’ She made that list for me because I made out with her and she said I was doing it wrong.”

Rose Marie McCoy, one of the most prolific songwriters of the 1950’s and 60’s passed away recently at the age of 92.

Listen to our story about “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever” on the Radio Diaries Podcast.

On July 28, 1945 an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictation machine in a nearby office happened to capture the sound of the plane as it hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor. Find out what happened next on the Radio Diaries Podcast.

On the Radio Diaries Podcast, we’re remembering Jimmy Weekley, the greatest underdog we’ve ever met.

Once upon a time, Ground Zero was known as “Radio Row.”

An eerie photograph, a famous song, and the man who lived to tell the story.

Once there were thousands of seltzer men in New York City. Today, Walter Backerman is one of the last.

Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

On April 20th, 1964 Nelson Mandela stood up in a stuffy South African courtroom and gave a speech.