In this encore presentation of For the Record, NPR's Rachel Martin looks at the last contested convention: the 1976 GOP meeting in Kansas City. Ronald Reagan nearly denied Gerald Ford the nomination.

Warren D. Ward, 48, was in high school when the swine flu threat of 1976 swept the U.S. The Whittier man remembers the episode vividly because a relative died in the 1918 flu pandemic, and the 1976 ...

These were some of the music highlights of America's Bicentennial year. By Paul Grein Over the course of 2026, we’ll be marking the 50th anniversaries of many music milestones, including the ...

Jeff Greenfield is a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and author. On Oct. 6, 1976, President Gerald Ford had reason to be optimistic heading into the second debate of a hotly ...

The 1976 Oakland Raiders knocked the competition around and upside down, laughing now that they've conquered and won. Pillaging just for fun in NFL.com's version of March Madness was the ...

A short history of the riots against new education laws that turned into a mass collective rejection of apartheid South Africa by thousands of working class black youths. Submitted by Ed on September ...

Vaccines were once thought of as an axiomatic good, a longed-for salvation in the form of a syringe, banishing crippling and deadly infections like polio, smallpox and tetanus. But within the past few ...

But in 1976 the French capital hosted the great man himself when his 3,000-year-old mummy was brought to Paris for a once-in-a-deathtime makeover. The story of how France literally saved the skin of ...