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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # History News Network ## History News Network ## History News Network *  May 18, 2021 ### [George Washington's Lesson for COVID-19 Vaccine Skeptics](https://time.com/6049536/george-washington-covid-vaccine/) This history carries a lesson for present-day holdouts against COVID-19 vaccines [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  May 12, 2021 ### [The Surprising Political History of the Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment](https://time.com/6047864/equal-rights-amendment-politics/) Discussion of the ERA often focuses on the way the New Right stopped ratification by the states in t... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 11, 2020 ### [Alexis de Tocqueville's Warning About Presidential Elections](https://time.com/5910662/toqueville-election/) Tocqueville's writing shows that divisive elections are nothing new—but that what happens after the ... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 10, 2020 ### [John Adams Lost His Re-Election. How He Responded Set a Precedent That's Been Followed for More Than 200 Years](https://time.com/5887573/john-adams-leaving-office/) One thing that John Adams never did was to voice a word of regret about leaving the presidency at hi... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jul 8, 2020 ### [150 Years Ago, the Senate Chose Not to Equalize Access to U.S. Citizenship. The Consequences Were Dire](https://time.com/5864416/citizenship-race-history/) Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both A... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Feb 18, 2020 ### ['Free College' in Historical Perspective](https://time.com/5785246/free-college-history/) One intriguing clue comes from a 1947 report commissioned by then-President Harry Truman [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Feb 10, 2020 ### [Today's Presidential Candidates Go Where the Voters Are—But These Past Campaigns Succeeded by Bringing the Voters to the Candidates](https://time.com/5780272/front-porch-campaign/) No presidential electioneering technique has ever been so successful while so short-lived [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jan 10, 2020 ### [Scientists Have Been Talking About Climate Change for More Than a Century. Here's Why It Took So Long for the World to Listen](https://time.com/5762817/climate-change-denial-history/) The scientific consensus on climate change is far older than many people think [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Dec 6, 2019 ### [What Alexander Hamilton Would Have Thought About a Wealth Tax](https://time.com/5745364/wealth-tax-constitution/) All taxation was on the framers’ table as they considered a new constitution. What would they make o... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 25, 2019 ### [The History of Modern Mass Incarceration of African Americans Goes Deeper Than You May Think](https://time.com/5738826/mass-incarceration-history/) A Louisiana law of 1848 declared that children born to enslaved female prisoners confined in the pen... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 21, 2019 ### [When the Suez Canal Opened 150 Years Ago, It Helped Connect the World—And Heralded the Climate Crisis](https://time.com/5736400/suez-canal-climate-change/) The largest infrastructural project of the 19th century annexed the Middle East into the fossil-fuel... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 15, 2019 ### [America's Founders Disagreed About Impeachment. Here's How the Idea Made It Into the Constitution](https://time.com/5700841/founding-fathers-impeachment-debate/) “This Magistrate is not the king! The people are the king!” [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 7, 2019 ### [A Century Ago, African Americans Were Massacred in Elaine, Ark. We're Still Reckoning With That Moment](https://time.com/5694529/elaine-massacre/) Elaine was a turning point, but it was only one of many [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 4, 2019 ### [Before the Berlin Wall, the KGB Used a Familiar Tool to Undermine Democracy in Germany: Disinformation](https://time.com/5692964/berlin-tunnel-russia-disinformation/) In one fell swoop, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower later said, Khrushchev had turned Berlin “into a... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 19, 2019 ### [The Forgotten History of the Native Americans Who Helped the Underground Railroad](https://time.com/5681533/native-americans-underground-railroad/) There are at least two primary reasons for the absence of Native Americans in the historiography of ... 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