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History: Part 16
- The Other Pentagon Papers Secret: Few People Actually Read Them
- See the Civil Rights Movement in Photographs
- This Is Why ‘PG-13’ Is a Thing
- Here’s How a Man Should Strip, According to Advice From the 1930s
- Quiz: Can You Unpack These Portmanteaus?
- The Surprising Story of Walter White and the NAACP
- These Books Boosted Troop Morale During World War II
- See 9 Striking Historical Photos of African American Women
- See Photos From One of Alice in Wonderland’s Most Memorable Adaptations
- See the Best Vintage Photos of People Stuffing Their Faces With Hot Dogs
- The Meaning Behind the Civil Rights Act’s Signing Date
- This Graphic Shows How Many Hot Dogs It Takes to Win the Nathan’s Eating Contest
- How the Declaration of Independence Can Still Change the World
- Read TIME’s Prescient Review of Back to the Future
- The Dark History of Fireworks
- How Thomas Jefferson’s Wartime Record Shaped His Life
- The Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July
- Read a Hemingway-Era Account of the Running of the Bulls
- When the Running of the Bulls Was So Hectic No One Noticed That Two Men Died
- See Photos of the Beatles on the Brink of Beatlemania
- This Is What Happened to the First Person to Get the Rabies Vaccine
- Y’all: It’s Older Than We Knew
- Remembering When Charles Manson Terrified America
- How the Roswell UFO Theory Got Started
- Celebrate the Festival of San Fermín From Afar With Vintage Bullfighting Photos
- How Sliced Bread Became the ‘Greatest Thing’
- The Woman Who Made Death a Conversation Starter
- These Vintage Ice Cream Photos Will Make Your Mouth Water
- The Forgotten World War II Story of Europe’s Last Battle
- Why Amy Winehouse Was in Control Even as She Crashed
- See Photos of Satchel Paige Before He Crossed the Baseball Color Line
- How a Drug Trade Dissolved When the Grateful Dead Stopped Touring
- The Story Behind To Kill a Mockingbird
- See Breathtaking Photos of Jackson Hole in its Dude Ranch Days
- See 13 Historic Parades for Star Athletes
- Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial on Its 90th Anniversary
- It’s Much Harder to Get a Ticker-Tape Parade Than It Used to Be
- How Omar Sharif Rose to Fame
- What We Can Learn From Coca-Cola’s Biggest Blunder
- Read TIME’s Original Review of The Big Lebowski
- Museums Are Changing. Thank Goodness
- See How the Hollywood Sign Has Changed Over Time
- This Is What Selfies Looked Like in the 1940s
- Why the 1977 Blackout Was One of New York’s Darkest Hours
- The Supreme Court Case That Proves the Antebellum South Wasn’t Really Concerned With States’ Rights
- See How Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter Became Presidential Contenders
- Read TIME’s Original Review of the To Kill a Mockingbird Movie
- These Vintage Prefab Vacation Homes Will Make You Long for the Woods
- From Mockingbird to Watchman: A Changing Alabama
- Masanori Murakami: Baseball’s Forgotten Pioneer
- This Is the JFK Speech Obama Just Quoted in His Iran Deal Speech
- How Jane Goodall Made a Scientific Breakthrough Without a College Degree
- See the First Close-Up Photo of Mars Ever Taken
- This is How Alzheimer’s Disease Got Its Name
- These Were the 6 Major American Economic Crises of the Last Century
- How a Dance Contest Catapulted Ginger Rogers into the Spotlight
- See Video of Walt Disney Preparing for Disneyland’s Opening
- When the U.S. Army Brought Reporters to a Still-Hot Atomic Test Site
- How Disney Proved That No Price Was Too High for Fun
- See Photos of Disneyland When It Opened in 1955
- Read TIME’s Original Review of Clueless
- See Photos From the Historic Apollo-Soyuz Mission
- How Go Set a Watchman Speaks to Our Time
- Did Bill Buckley Dream Up Uber Before There Even Was an Uber?
- Mitsubishi Apologizes for Using U.S. Prisoners as Slaves During World War II
- Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing With the Woman Who Made It Happen
- See Photos From the First Special Olympics
- These Mysterious Photos Might Just Solve Your Headache Problem
- See What Happened When Feminists Squared Off With Hugh Hefner in 1970
- The List of Presidential Assassination Attempts Is Shockingly Longer than Anyone Thought
- The Fascinating Histories Behind 9 of Your Favorite Foods
- How a Teenager Sentenced to Life in Prison Became the Involuntary Face of Reform
- 5 Times Ernest Hemingway Cheated Death
- Fragments of What Could Be World’s Oldest Koran Have Been Found in the U.K.
- The Long, Twisted History of Your Credit Score
- The Italian Bombshell Who Proved That Life Is About Much More Than Curves
- Read TIME’s Original Reviews of E.L. Doctorow’s Books
- From Kitsch to Park Avenue: The Cultural History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
- How We Measured Time Before Clocks
- This Was the First Time a Sitting U.S. President Visited Africa
- How to Make Summer Watermelon Punch for a 1940s Party
- The Scandal That Cost a Miss America Her Crown
- Here’s Proof That Cute Puppies Have Always Been Newsworthy
- How Donald Trump Became Donald Trump
- What Hiram Bingham Got Wrong About Machu Picchu
- See Photos of Machu Picchu Before It Became a Major Tourist Attraction
- Scenes From Guantanamo in the Lead-Up to a Crisis
- When Khrushchev Said No to Pepsi but Yes to Peace
- When American Children Donned Castro Beards for Playtime
- We Know Why Obama Changed U.S. Policy Toward Cuba. But Why Did Cuba Change Its Policy Toward the U.S.?
- Bugs Bunny at 75: Watch the First-Ever ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ Moment
- The Bitter Story of One of the Korean War’s Last American Deaths
- Remembering How the French Got Ahead of Lance Armstrong
- See How Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday Turned Violent
- This Is How Politically Inferior Women Were After the American Revolution
- The Evolution of Modern Satanism in the United States
- When an Army Plane Crashed Into the Empire State Building
- A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Porn Industry in 1970
- How Future Historians Might Use Your Tweets
- When Spousal Rape First Became a Crime in the U.S.