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100 years ago, Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up from Slavery was published. Soon after that, another dominant black intellectual of the day, W.E.B. DuBois offered a differing view on how African-Americans should define their new role in society. Liane Hansen speaks with historian Douglas Brinkley and DuBois biographer David Levering Lewis about the legacy of Up from Slavery.

One of the most popular "bird cams" on the Web is focused on a pair of nesting bald eagles in Canada's British Columbia, near the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Fans have watched as two eaglets hatched and are almost ready to leave the nest.

NPR Music's Song of the Day features a new track every weekday, with analysis of the music, links to each artist's Web sites and, of course, a chance to hear the song itself. Here, Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson talks about recent selections by A Hawk and a Hacksaw, John Forte and Volcano Choir.

Last year, Gates uncovered a manuscript of a novel purportedly written in the 1850s by an African American woman who had been a slave. It is the first known work of its kind and has great historical and literary significance. The Bondwomans Narrative by Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, has just been published (Warner Books). Well talk with Gates about the process of finding, authenticating and publishing the novel. Gates is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Harvard University. Hes published seven books and has received many awards for his work.

An Islamic militant Web site posts video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. civilian Nick Berg, 26, at the hands of masked men in Iraq. Berg had been missing since April 9; his decapitated body was found Saturday. A voice on the tape tied the killing to abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison; it also invoked the name of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen.

With five months to go in the election season, a barrage of presidential campaign ads has begun -- on the World Wide Web. Political ad content isn't restricted by law when it's delivered online, and the assaults are markedly vicious.

This election season, the American Institute of Graphic Arts asked members to design posters encouraging people to vote. The organization is now displaying more than 200 "get out the vote" posters on its Web site. NPR's Melissa Block speaks with some of the designers.

GlaxoSmithKlein, the manufacturer of the antidepressant Paxil, has released on its company Web site reports of unpublished clinical tests of that drug in children and adolescents suffering from depression. Paxil is not approved for use in children but some doctors have prescribed it off label. SmithKline officials have denied that they selectively disclosed clinical trial findings. This is the first time that this data on Paxil have been made public and NPR's Joanne Silberner looks at whether it will give a different picture of the safety and efficacy of the drug.

Linda talks to Marita Brunner (BREW ner) the founder of Flight 427 Air Disaster Support League. She had a relative on board the USAir flight that crash near Pittsburgh in the fall of 1994. She says relatoves and friends of victims of air crashes have to suffer the deaths plus the fact they often do not have a say on burial and retrieval of posessions. She says the Florida crash will bring the extra pain of perhaps no way to retrieve remains at all. She asked that for our web page we include the following: Natl Air Disaster Alliane 412-572-6427 PO Box 13117, Akron OH 44313.

Questions emerge over the fate of a U.S. Marine held by a militant group in Iraq. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun of Utah was shown in captivity in a video released last week. After a web site claimed Hassoun had been beheaded, the group supposedly responsible denied the report's credibility. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and NPR's Anne Garrels.