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Lily Rothman
Lily Rothman is Assistant Managing Editor, Magazine, at TIME
Recent Articles
It's Harder Than Ever to Care About Anything
They say never to read the comments, and that’s generally good practice for mental health on the internet. But sometimes you can’t resist. And so it was while reading the comments on a January David...
By Lily Rothman
April 13, 2022
How Prince Philip Became Queen Elizabeth's Unlikely Husband
Philip's unusual background allowed him to help his Queen and wife become the monarch who defined a new era for her nation
By Lily Rothman
April 9, 2021
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy Doesn't Start With the Supreme Court
Here's how she made news decades earlier
By Lily Rothman
September 18, 2020
John Lewis on Why He Kept Telling the Story of Civil Rights
Read a previously unpublished excerpt from John Lewis' 2017 conversation with TIME
By Lily Rothman
July 18, 2020
What It's Like to Be an Advice Columnist During a Global Pandemic
In the weeks before the coronavirus reshaped the lives of people around the world, Daniel M. Lavery, who writes the "Dear Prudence" advice column at Slate, received an unusual letter. The writer, in the course...
By Lily Rothman
June 11, 2020
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Coronavirus Demands a Leader Like FDR
"The overwhelming majority have never seen a situation that so severely disrupts our daily routines. Maybe that’s where history can provide perspective and solace"
By Lily Rothman
March 23, 2020
Greta Thunberg Is the Youngest TIME Person of the Year Ever. Here’s How She Made History
The climate activist is the first teenager to receive the recognition
By Lily Rothman
December 11, 2019
'We're All Growing Up Together': As
Sesame Street
Turns 50, Big Bird Is Still Making Friends Everywhere He Goes
There are perks to being an 8-ft.-tall canary. Everyone recognizes you and wants to be your friend. On the other hand, our world is not built for 8-ft.-tall canaries. Inside a television studio, for example,...
By Lily Rothman
November 7, 2019
Robert Mugabe Ruled Zimbabwe for Decades. Here's How He First Came to Power
What Mugabe did with his power, however, was less easy to explain
By Lily Rothman
September 6, 2019
How to Be an Antiracist
Author Ibram X. Kendi on What We Get Wrong About Racism
The National Book Award winner on "the R word," the end of capitalism and his new book, How to Be an Antiracist
By Lily Rothman
August 8, 2019
The New Head of the Smithsonian Thinks Americans Can Find a Middle Ground in Museums
The 14th secretary of the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III, on his new job, the value of pandas and how to make the past personal You've said you can tell a lot about a place...
By Lily Rothman
June 20, 2019
President Trump Said He Would Take Foreign Campaign Help. Here's What Past Candidates Did in That Situation
What two candidates did in parallel situations in 1968 is an instructive lesson for today, argues presidential scholar Ken Hughes
By Lily Rothman
June 14, 2019
The 'Counter-Textbooks' Offering Kids a Radical Look at History
Throughout the promotion of Beacon Press' ReVisioning American History series--in which each book tells the nation's story through the lens of a marginalized group--the authors kept getting the same question, usually from a teacher: Is...
By Lily Rothman
June 6, 2019
What Even Happened to the Mountain? What the Real History of Necromancy Tells Us
The word has several meanings
By Lily Rothman
May 16, 2019
Is Jon Snow’s Royal Claim on Game of Thrones Really Stronger 'Because He’s a Man'? Here’s What Real Succession Rules Say
And what Varys gets wrong about primogeniture
By Lily Rothman
May 9, 2019
What The Woman Who Helped America Have Better Sex Has to Say to Millennials
The sex therapist, 90, on living with history, her advice for millennials and the new documentary about her life, Ask Dr. Ruth. You were born in Germany and lived in Switzerland, Jerusalem and Paris before...
By Lily Rothman
May 9, 2019
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Ushering in a New Act for the Metropolitan Opera
In the fly space above the stage at the Metropolitan Opera and around and behind it, scenery waits to be called into action. An intricate system of pulleys and lifts allows quick changes. Today's afternoon...
By Lily Rothman
May 2, 2019
The Real History of Medieval Knights Makes Brienne's Big 'Game of Thrones' Moment Even More Meaningful
Brienne of Tarth has long drawn comparisons to Joan of Arc, and now the list of similarities is even longer
By Lily Rothman
April 25, 2019
There's a Real-Life Inspiration for
GoT's
Valyrian Steel
"Somebody came up to us and said, 'Hey, I think those steel compositions you’re using are identical to those in the famed Damascus steels'"
By Lily Rothman
April 22, 2019
What a Watergate Expert Thinks of the Mueller Report
"I was just struck by how many echoes there were"
By Lily Rothman
April 19, 2019
A Major Moment Took Place in the Crypts Beneath Winterfell. Here's the Real History Behind the Key 'Game of Thrones' Location
What the real medieval past can tell us about the resting place of the Kings in the North
By Lily Rothman
April 15, 2019
Why History Looks Different Through a Mother's Eyes
It's said that history is written by the victors, but it would also be fair to say it typically isn't written by people who are busy birthing, nursing or tending to babies, victorious though they...
By Lily Rothman
April 4, 2019
American History Has Some Lessons for the Next Phase of the Mueller Investigation
As the world waits to see what happens with the Mueller report, American history offers parallels for a few possible futures
By Lily Rothman
March 27, 2019
As Grand Canyon National Park Turns 100, Its Chief Ranger Plans for the Next Century
If you want strangers to ask to take a photo with you, walk around in a park ranger's uniform. As chief ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, Matthew Vandzura knows this well. Even on a...
By Lily Rothman
March 7, 2019
How One Man's Autograph Collection Is a Surprising Window Into a Changing World
The Caracas-based collector, who was featured in TIME in 1963, has about 1,500 issues of the magazine autographed by the cover subject
By TIME Video and Lily Rothman
February 21, 2019
How Roger Stone Connects Trump and Nixon
Stone, who has been arrested on charges linked to the Mueller investigation, was still a teen when he began working with the Nixon campaign
By Lily Rothman
January 25, 2019
'The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee' Author David Treuer on Why We Need to Change the Way Indian Stories Are Told
"We gave people permission to settle here in exchange for recognition of our tribal sovereignty. If that troubles people, they can move."
By Lily Rothman
January 24, 2019
Study Reveals Just How Much—And How Little—Canadians Really Know About the Holocaust
A full 22% of Millennial respondents were less that totally sure that they'd ever heard or seen the word "Holocaust"
By Lily Rothman
January 24, 2019
Common Threads Run Through Many of History's Worst Dictatorships. Here's One Way North Korea Fits In
A new PBS documentary series takes a look at those commonalities
By Lily Rothman
January 8, 2019
The Best Gifts Under $50 To Give This Holiday Season
From an electric toothbrush to discount airfare deals
By Patrick Lucas Austin , Alex Fitzpatrick , Jamie Ducharme , Rachel E. Greenspan and Lily Rothman
December 7, 2018
The Real History Behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Trip to the Catskills ‘Borscht Belt’
How the Borscht Belt came to be
By Lily Rothman
December 6, 2018
3 Crucial Life Lessons From President George H.W. Bush
1. Be nice, but not weak
By Lily Rothman
December 1, 2018
The Story Behind George H.W. Bush's Famous 'Read My Lips, No New Taxes' Promise
How the "no new taxes" line went down in history
By Lily Rothman
December 1, 2018
What the Artist Behind a Comics-Style History of Anti-Fascist Resistance Thinks You Should Know About Antifa
The artist behind an antifa history comic book talks to TIME
By Lily Rothman
November 8, 2018
Mail Bombs Rocked American Politics a Century Ago. Here's What a Historian Thinks That Moment Has to Teach Us
In 1919, three dozen prominent figures were the targets of a coordinated mail-bomb campaign
By Lily Rothman
October 26, 2018
Norman Rockwell's Vision of the Four Freedoms Left Some People Out. These Artists Are Trying to Fill Those Gaps
Updated — Nov. 15, 2018: The cover of TIME’s latest issue features a modern version of Freedom of Worship, the iconic 1943 Norman Rockwell painting. Here’s the story behind the picture. It was no surprise...
By Lily Rothman
October 12, 2018
Why Modern Misogynists Love Ancient History, and What They Get Wrong About It, According to an Expert
'Not All Dead White Men' author Donna Zuckerberg talks to TIME
By Lily Rothman
October 9, 2018
The Surprising Role of Circus Performers in the Fight for Women's Suffrage
The Barnum & Bailey's Circus Women's Equal Rights Society was founded in 1912
By Lily Rothman
October 8, 2018
The Meaning of 'Presumed Innocent' Has Evolved. Here's How the Kavanaugh Hearings Fit Into That History
The presumption of innocence has two separate meanings, defined over the course of centuries of jurisprudence.
By Lily Rothman
October 5, 2018
More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here's Why That History Isn't Better Known
"We want to remember ourselves as always having been on the right side in this war"
By Lily Rothman
October 4, 2018
What to Know About the Surprising Modern History of Contraception
"You hear women in the present saying that men should take responsibility, but men were given responsibility for millennia and they didn’t do it very well."
By Lily Rothman
September 26, 2018
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Looks to Past Presidents for Lessons the World Could Use Right Now
Doris Kearns Goodwin lives surrounded by American history. Her home in Concord, Mass., is minutes from the site of one of the first battles of the American Revolution. The house itself, cool on a day...
By Lily Rothman
September 6, 2018
20 Years Of Google Has Changed the Way We Think. Here's How, According to a Historian of Information
In the years since Google was founded on Sept. 4, 1998, the way people process information has changed—in one very specific way
By Lily Rothman
September 4, 2018
'Operation Finale' Shows the Capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. But What Happened at His Trial Changed History, Too
"The trial’s purpose was to put the Holocaust on trial"
By Lily Rothman
August 29, 2018
How John McCain's Years as a Vietnam POW Shaped His Life
He was self-deprecatingly aware of the irony of becoming well-known as a military man for what he did as a prisoner
By Lily Rothman
August 25, 2018
What People Get Wrong About the History of American Judaism Before the Civil War
Steven R. Weisman, author of 'The Chosen Wars,' spoke to TIME about what people get wrong about American Judaism before the Civil War
By Lily Rothman
August 23, 2018
Read Babe Ruth's 1948 Obituary: 'He Was Unforgettable, Even When He Struck Out'
"He was color itself—a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body"
By Lily Rothman
August 16, 2018
Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate
"What it meant was that a wealthy baby lived and a poor baby died"
By Lily Rothman
July 31, 2018
Martha Nussbaum on What's Behind America's Fear Problem—And What to Do About It
"Men in philosophy, and they were all men at the time, had just simply not seen fit to investigate the messier parts of the personal life"
By Lily Rothman
July 19, 2018
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