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History: Part 36
- ‘Out of the Jaws of Death’: Read TIME’s Original Report on the Evacuation of Dunkirk
- Celebrate Summer With Vintage Photos of Swimming Pools Across America
- A Historian’s Reflections on What John F. Kennedy Meant to Americans
- 10 Experts Pick U.S. Historic Places That Are Actually Worth Visiting
- The Surprising Way JFK’s Ex-Girlfriends Helped Make Him a War Hero
- See Dizzying Photos of the Golden Gate Bridge Under Construction
- See the 20 Times John F. Kennedy Appeared on the Cover of LIFE Magazine
- 5 Books to Read in Honor of JFK’s Centennial
- What to Know About John F. Kennedy’s Life, in 90 Seconds
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Why the 1960s Was an Age of Poetry
- The Artifacts That Speak to President Kennedy’s Private Side
- See How JFK Created a Presidency for the Television Age
- The History Behind the Law That Created a Registry of Sex Offenders
- The Library of Congress Is Using These Images to Tell the Story of World War I
- Why the Real Congressman Underwood Never Became President
- The History of the Confederate Flag Isn’t Just a Southern Issue
- What the World Got Wrong About the Russian Revolution
- These Words Stumped the Finalists at the First National Spelling Bee in 1925
- The Personal History Behind One Hundred Years of Solitude
- An Exclusive Look Inside Harvard’s New Game of Thrones-Themed Class
- See 30 of the Best Photographs of Children From the LIFE Magazine Archives
- How The Beatles Made Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Work
- How Whiskey Overtook Rum to Become the Signature Spirit of the U.S.
- LIFE Shared This Remarkable Parkinson’s Disease Story in 1959. A Lot Has Changed Since Then
- This Is Why Doughnuts Are Associated With Police Officers
- Inside the Wedding That Shook the British Monarchy
- The Story of the Last U.S. Execution Before a Nationwide Moratorium Took Effect 50 Years Ago
- The Latest Exercise Fad: Storming Normandy Beach on D-Day
- Exclusive: The Real Reason Muhammad Ali Converted to Islam
- Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Jazz Icon Josephine Baker
- 50 Years Ago This Week: The Looming Crisis of the Six-Day War
- A LIFE Photographer Was Killed on Assignment 50 Years Ago. His Work Endures
- Why Jefferson Davis Got His U.S. Citizenship Back
- Why Americans First Started Paying a Separate Tax on Gas
- The Presidential Heart Attack That Got Americans Running
- Hillary Clinton Is Speaking at Medgar Evers College. Here’s What to Know About the Civil Rights Icon
- What the Women of Britain’s Early Factories Did About Work-Life Balance
- The Birth of America’s Flag Obsession
- These 10 Sketches Show Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bold Vision
- The Disturbing History Behind James Comey’s Henry II Reference
- Here’s How to Make ‘Victory Cake’ With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front
- 50 Years Ago This Week: How to Win a War in One Week
- How Anne Frank’s Diary Survived
- How the American Flag Pattern Got So Popular
- A History of the Mayflower Hotel in 5 Scandals
- 5 Memorable Presidential Birthdays
- Lawmakers Were Shot at Practice for the Congressional Baseball Game. Here’s the History Behind It
- The History Behind the Founding of the U.S. Capitol Police
- The Forgotten Origins of Father’s Day
- Buying Your Dad a Gift Is Why Father’s Day Exists
- Vintage Color Photos Capture the ‘Peril and Ecstasy’ of Surfing in 1963
- How the Radical ’60s and ’70s Helped Make Father’s Day a National Holiday
- How Whole Foods Got So Big
- How TIME Covered the Original Monterey Pop Festival
- How Helmut Kohl Wanted to Be Remembered
- The Real Reason Why Bachelorette Parties Are a Thing
- Remembering the ‘Overshadowed’ Civil Rights Protest That Desegregated Gulf Coast Beaches
- Google Doodle Honors First American Indian to Get a Medical Degree
- 50 Years Ago This Week: A Crisis Inside the American University
- How the King James Bible Came to Be
- The Supreme Court Decided a Major Gerrymandering Case. Here’s What to Know About the Term’s Origins
- Crossing the Naktong With Thousands of Korean Refugees
- Lessons of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Refugee Crisis
- How a Real Genetic Disorder Could Have Inspired Fairy Tales
- Celebrate Selfies With 5 Self-Portraits That Made History
- What Happened to Amelia Earhart? These Dogs Are on a Mission to Sniff Out Her Remains
- What to Know About the 1967 Law Seen as a Milestone for Gay Rights in Britain
- The White House, Wonder Woman and What to Know About Thucydides
- 3 Ways Societies Counted Populations Before the U.S. Census
- How Title IX First Changed the World of Women’s Sports
- Scenes From a Dispute at the Korean Border
- This Is Where the Word ‘History’ Comes From
- 50 Years Ago This Week: The President Meets the Russians
- What Charles Darwin Saw at the Zoo
- Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come
- Americans Are Totally Obsessed With Avocados Thanks to This Man
- How John Dominis Photographed Wild Antelope Without a Telephoto Lens
- Were These Holocaust Survivors Forced Into a Ghetto? The Answer Will Determine Their Financial Future
- What Happened During the Hillsborough Disaster
- America’s ‘Real’ Independence Day Is Not July 4
- What These Filmmakers Learned From 1,000 Hours of Footage of Ronald Reagan
- Move Over, Fourth of July. There May Be a Better Day to Celebrate America’s Independence
- Where President Trump’s ‘Face-Lift’ Tweets Fit in Presidential History
- Celebrate Canada Day With the ‘Strong Man of the North’
- 25 Moments That Changed America
- Inside Amelia Earhart’s Life and the 80-Year Search for the Trailblazing Pilot
- Coal Country’s Suffering Is Nothing New
- Why Canada Day Is Not the Same as Canadian Independence Day
- 50 Years Ago This Week: When the Hippies Took America
- How Fireworks Became a Fourth of July Tradition
- 6 Surprising Facts About the Erie Canal on Its 200th Birthday
- Spam Is Turning 80. Here’s How the Canned Meat Took Over the World
- This Photo May Prove Amelia Earhart Survived Her Final Flight
- LIFE’s Most Memorable Kisses
- Now You Know: Why Are There Special Gifts for Each Anniversary Year?
- The War That Started 80 Years Ago Wouldn’t Happen Today. We Can Still Learn From It
- 50 Years Ago This Week: The Middle East in Turmoil
- Why Russian Officials Tried to Help John F. Kennedy Win the Presidency
- Martin Luther King Jr. Got the Presidential Medal of Freedom 40 Years Ago. That Timing Was No Coincidence
- How Nadar Became the First Great Portrait Photographer