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History: Part 35
- Abraham Lincoln Was Shot on Good Friday. Some Thought It Was Fate
- Here’s Why Easter Eggs Are a Thing
- Unpublished Rabbit Photos From the LIFE Archives Put Bunnies in the Spotlight
- A Quiet Passion and the Real Emily Dickinson
- The U.S. Contemplated a Nuclear Confrontation in North Korea in 1953. We Can Learn From That Moment
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Brazil’s Place in a Changing World
- Ellis Island’s Busiest Day Ever Was 110 Years Ago. Here’s Why
- Searching for the Soldier Who Saved Ernest Hemingway’s Life
- Americans’ Feelings About Paying Taxes Have Changed. Here’s How
- David McCullough: President Trump’s Disregard for History Is ‘Utter Nonsense’
- What the Guys Who Coined ‘420’ Think About Their Place in Marijuana History
- Get a First Look at Rare Richard Avedon Portraits of Jackie and John F. Kennedy
- Exclusive Clip From Rodney King Riots Documentary Shows Declaration of Emergency in L.A.
- Annie Hall at 40: Read TIME’s Original Review
- Disturbing Photographs Show Pollution in the Great Lakes Before the Clean Water Act
- Inside the U.S. Effort to Find Nazi War Criminals Before It’s Too Late
- Manhattan Almost Had a Highway Running Across It. Here’s What It Would Have Looked Like
- The Real History to Know Before You See The Promise
- Pollution Hurts Some People More Than Others. That’s Been True for Centuries
- The Disturbing History of African-Americans and Medical Research Goes Beyond Henrietta Lacks
- 50 Years Ago This Week: The Liberal Civil War
- The Other Side of Confederate Memorial Day
- For Barbra Streisand on Her Birthday: LIFE’s Photos of Her Broadway Debut
- President Trump Jokes With Astronaut Peggy Whitson on Oval Office Call
- These States Are Celebrating Confederate Memorial Day
- Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald’s Life Through the Objects That Defined Her Career
- The 50 Worst Cars of All Time
- The White House Says Trump Signed More Executive Orders So Far Than FDR. That’s Wrong
- Former CIA Operative Argues Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cuba Connections Went Deep
- The Inside Story of Why Take Your Daughter to Work Day Exists
- Studio 54 at 40: Celebrity Photos From the Legendary Disco
- The Real History Behind Picasso’s Guernica
- The Real History of the Law Behind President Trump’s Executive Order on National Monuments
- Presidents Haven’t Always Had to Worry About Their First 100 Days. Here’s How That Started
- What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump’s First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses
- The History Behind President Trump’s Problem With the Ninth Circuit Court
- This Is Why Arbor Day Is a Thing
- American History According to President Trump
- Hitler’s Suicide and New Research on Nazi Drug Use
- Behind the Treaty That Shaped the U.S. Relationship With Canada
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Optimism on the Vietnam War
- The Enduring Power of John F. Kennedy’s Message to the World
- President Trump’s Question About the Civil War Was Answered by Abraham Lincoln in 1865
- Now You Know: Why Are Taxi Cabs Yellow?
- The Surprising Role of Clergy in the Abortion Fight Before Roe v. Wade
- How the U.S. Prepared for Nuclear Catastrophe
- Fyre Festival Was Awful, But It Had Nothing on Woodstock: A Brief History of Music Festivals Gone Wrong
- Preview a Photographic Record of John F. Kennedy’s Life and Career
- What Jackie Robinson Said About the Red Sox and Race
- The Surprising Evolution of Cinco de Mayo
- What Happened When Oregon Sent Its Most Troubled Mental-Health Patients Into the Woods
- The Historically Accurate Way to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
- What to Know About the Real History of Free Speech at Berkeley
- Why the Hindenburg Disaster Is Still Worth Remembering
- An African-American Jockey Hasn’t Won the Kentucky Derby for More Than a Century. Here’s Why
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Meet the Little-Known Judge Defending Civil Rights
- Unpublished Photographs of Civil-Rights Icons Highlight James Baldwin’s Role as ‘Spiritual Historian’
- Why Today Marks Grateful Dead Day
- American Fashion Has Gotten More Colorful. Here’s What Changed
- The Real Reason Grads Wear a Cap and Gown
- James Comey Is the Second FBI Director to Be Fired. Here’s What Happened the Other Time
- FBI Directors Are Appointed for 10-Year Terms. Here’s Why
- The Forgotten Parent Behind Mother’s Day
- New Orleans Mayor Defends Removing Confederate Monuments: ‘We’re Correcting History’
- The Surprisingly Sad Origins of Mother’s Day
- Unpublished Photos Capture the Lifesaving Role of Nurses in World War II
- The True History Behind the Legend of King Arthur
- How Anne Frank’s Family Found a Place to Hide
- The History That Makes President Trump’s ‘Tapes’ Tweet Controversial
- New Interactive Tool Traces the Evolution of the U.S. Constitution
- How the Army Decided Which U.S. Troops Would Get to Go Home After V-E Day
- 50 Years Ago This Week: The King of Late-Night Television
- The Real TIME Cover Behind That Fake ‘Ice Age’ Report
- ‘Either We Go or We Burn Right Here’: A Survivor Remembers the Warsaw Ghetto
- Why President Trump Can Share Classified Information If He Wants
- How a Financial Panic Helped Launch the New York Stock Exchange
- 18 Sitting Senators Were in Office During Bill Clinton’s Impeachment. Here’s How They Voted
- The Birth of the U.S. Police Force
- How the U.S. Got Its Police Force
- America’s First Anti-Slavery Statute Was Passed in 1652. Here’s Why It Was Ignored
- More Workers Are Testing Positive for Drugs Than in the Last 12 Years
- Before Fox News, Roger Ailes Helped Get Richard Nixon Elected
- If Trump and Nixon Comparisons Hold, Here’s What Comes Next
- Why American College Campuses Were Built to Get Students Out of Cities
- The World Over Which Charles Lindbergh Flew
- How One Photographer Captured Jimi Hendrix at His Peak
- A Brief Photo History of Little Royal Kids in Big British Weddings
- What to Know About the Original Ponzi Scheme Before You Watch The Wizard of Lies
- See the Vintage Airline Posters That Helped Imaginations Take Flight
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Vietnam and the Black Soldier
- The Founding Fathers Disagreed About the President’s Power to Fire People
- Inside the Historic Meeting Mentioned in President Trump’s Saudi Arabia Speech
- How the Daughter of a Slave Became the First African-American Woman to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
- How Roger Moore Became James Bond
- A History of Hunger Lies Beneath Italy’s Food Culture
- How to Write a Great Letter, According to One of History’s Best Correspondents
- Read Julia Child’s Letter to William Safire on How to Correctly Capitalize the Names of Wines
- This Is Why the Congressional Budget Office Was Created
- How Memorial Day Went From Somber Occasion to Summer Celebration
- Behind the Scenes With John Wayne in 1969