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[HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 12, 2021 ### [How a Miniature Emancipation Proclamation Helped Recruit Black Soldiers During the Civil War](https://time.com/5954044/emancipation-proclamation-books/) The sight of Black soldiers distributing print to other Black people in a state that criminalized th... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 15, 2020 ### [What We Get Wrong About Medieval Libraries](https://time.com/5900305/medieval-library-monks/) Medieval manuscripts reveal the reading communities of the early Middle Ages [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Aug 10, 2020 ### [The Overlooked Role of Women in the American Revolution](https://time.com/5877694/women-american-revolution/) Spinning yarn is work that has become invisible in modern life. But at the dawn of the American Revo... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jul 8, 2020 ### [The Long History of Drinking Games—And How to Win Them](https://time.com/5864371/drinking-games-history/) The first guide to drinking is a Latin poem published in 1536 [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  May 15, 2020 ### [How the Rise of the Working Wife Changed British Society](https://time.com/5837450/working-wives/) A momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 1, 2020 ### [Why Are There 360 Degrees in a Circle?](https://time.com/5813871/history-360-degrees-circle/) As Greek geometry developed, it created the concept of an angle as a magnitude [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Feb 6, 2020 ### [The Past and Future of Punctuation Marks](https://time.com/5779281/punctuation-history/) In classical times there were no punctuation marks or spaces between words. Here's how that changed [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jan 10, 2020 ### [What We Can Learn From Ancient Graffiti](https://time.com/5762562/rewriting-history/) The earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument has been identified by the historian Lionel C... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 24, 2019 ### [A Historic U.K. Law Was Passed After a Wave of Anti-Migrant Sentiment. Here's How It Shaped British Immigration Policy](https://time.com/5709932/british-immigration-history/) The Aliens Act of 1905 created a new type of immigrant to the U.K. and a new way of dealing with the... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 23, 2019 ### [The Long Debate Over What Counts as a Concentration Camp](https://time.com/5681831/concentration-camp-definition/) Even for Nazi camp survivors who sought to eradicate them, they were hard to define [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 5, 2019 ### [What the History of Beards Reveals About the Changing Meaning of Masculinity](https://time.com/5669816/beard-history/) The historian Christopher Oldstone-Moore identifies "four great beard movements" that punctuate hist... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 28, 2019 ### [With Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz Once Again Under Threat, These Are the Lessons of the 1980s Tanker War](https://time.com/5617054/tanker-war/) If tensions in the Persian Gulf lead to war, it will not be the first time [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 24, 2019 ### [Where Brexit Fits in the Long British History of Petitioning Parliament](https://time.com/5577423/brexit-petition-history/) In the centuries before universal suffrage, petitioning was an indispensable tool to represent publi... 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