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History: Part 39
- How Medieval Fake News Brought Down the Knights Templar
- Mata Hari’s True Story Remains a Mystery 100 Years After Her Death
- There’s a Reason Behind Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Special Flag Ritual
- Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s Ugly Casting Couch History
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Reagan vs. Rockefeller
- Baby Jessica’s Rescue from a Well Capped Off a Terrifying Week in U.S. History
- How California Changed the Way the World Fights Fires
- People Are Not Happy That This School District Banned Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
- 3 Strange Treatments Doctors Used to Think Were Good for You
- John McPhee on Writing, Reading and How Working in Magazines Has Changed
- President Trump’s Offer of $25,000 for a Fallen Soldier’s Father Is a Page From George Washington’s Playbook
- The World Forgot About a 402-Foot-Long Painting. Here’s What Happened When It Was Found
- ‘Einstein of the Ocean’ Who Helped Surfers Catch the Perfect Waves Turns 100
- The Families of Fallen Troops Have a Complicated History With U.S. Presidents
- Is This Our Moment of Decline? Lessons From Rome Before the Fall
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Washington’s Biggest Peace Protest
- The Final JFK Assassination Documents Are About to Drop. Here’s What to Know
- See Julia Child in France as Captured by Her Husband’s Camera
- ‘The Turmoil of Burma’ in 1949: The Constant Conflict of Myanmar
- How the KKK’s Influence Spread in Northern States
- The Story Behind Jeff Flake’s Teddy Roosevelt Quote on Why Criticizing the President Matters
- Where Does the ‘Thumbs-Up’ Gesture Really Come From?
- How Trick-or-Treating Became Part of Halloween Tradition
- How a Photographer Illuminated the Plight of the ‘Invisible Poor’
- How President Trump Is Succeeding Where FDR Failed
- President Trump Will Delay the Release of Some John F. Kennedy Assassination Records
- As President Trump Declares Opioid Emergency, Here’s What to Know About the History of ‘Just Say No’
- How the World Is Marking the 500th Birthday of Protestantism
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Conservatives Can Be Fun
- Why Martin Luther King Changed His Name to Honor the Original Martin Luther
- Martin Luther Changed Christianity 500 Years Ago. It Changed Again in the 1960s
- Martin Luther’s 95 Theses Are 500 Years Old. Here’s Why They’re Still Causing Controversy
- The Real Science That Created Frankenstein’s Monster
- Paul Manafort Was Charged With Breaking a Law That Was Designed to Fight Nazis
- See Early Photos of Bruce Springsteen From the Photographer Who Captures His ‘True Grit’
- The True History Behind the LBJ Movie
- Photography’s Power in the Civil Rights Movement Had a Tragic Side
- Another Batch of Previously Withheld JFK Assassination Records Just Went Public
- 50 Years Ago This Week: In Soviet Russia
- The October Revolution Changed the World 100 Years Ago. But the Shocking Downfall of Russia’s Last Tsar Made It Possible
- First Woman to Translate Homer’s Odyssey Into English: How Modern Bias Is Projected Onto Antiquity
- Growing Up Jewish on Hitler’s Block: ‘Our Neighbor’s a Dangerous Man’
- Vladimir Lenin Biographer: ‘He Is the Godfather of Post-Truth Politics’
- ‘Play Ball’: See the Message That Launched American Soldiers Into World War II
- What the Complicated History of Childbirth in the U.K. Reveals About the Home-or-Hospital Decision
- The Civil War Never Stopped Being Fought in America’s Classrooms. Here’s Why That Matters
- How a Long-Lost Photograph Revealed One Family’s Immigration Story
- The Ancient Origins of Our Modern Obsession With Breaking World Records
- The Deep Connection Between Veterans Day and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- See David Bowie Behind the Scenes on The Man Who Fell to Earth
- Thousands of People Became American Citizens on the First Official Veterans Day
- How FDR’s ‘Four Freedoms’ Inspired Americans During World War II
- Why It Took Decades to Realize How Many Millions of People Were Killed by the Spanish Flu
- Everything You Need to Know About Veterans Day
- A Young Holocaust Victim Left Behind a Clue That Would Reunite Her Family Decades Later
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Cleveland’s Carl Stokes Becomes A New Mayor for a New Era
- Evidence of the World’s Oldest Grape Wine Has Been Discovered
- How a 1947 TIME Story Exposed the Darkness Behind Nostalgia for the Old West
- Historians Still Have a Lot to Learn About Adolf Hitler. Here’s Why
- California Is Adopting LGBT-Inclusive History Textbooks. It’s the Latest Chapter in a Centuries-Long Fight
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind at 40: The Movie That Proved ‘Spielberg’s Reputation Is No Accident’
- Inside the Invention of the the Modern News Illustration and Infographic Map
- Can Congress Jail Witnesses Who Refuse to Cooperate?
- We Know Less About the First Thanksgiving Than You Probably Think
- Rare Documents Show a Palm Reader’s Take on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
- Twitter Is Full of Fake History Photos. Here’s How to Outsmart Them
- The Moments That Changed the Meaning of Adoption in the U.S.
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Britain’s Money Crisis
- ‘The Demon of Death Valley’: Read TIME’s Original Report on the 1969 Manson Family Arrests
- The Disappearing New York City of Todd Webb’s Photographs
- See How Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Created the Modern Royal Wedding 70 Years Ago
- How the Fashions of the 1960s Reflected Social Change
- How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Changed the Way the Holiday Is Celebrated
- What Experts Have Learned So Far From the JFK Records Releases
- The True Story Behind the Winston Churchill Biopic Darkest Hour
- The Story of This Shocking Image From a Prison Camp in Bosnia Continues 25 Years Later
- Read TIME’s Original 1942 Review of Casablanca: ‘Rick Is Still Trying to Get Over It’
- ‘A Country Within a Country’: Inside the Navajo Nation in 1948
- George H.W. Bush Is the Longest Living President in U.S. History
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Miniskirts on the Rise
- The Last Time a British Royal Married an American It Caused a Global Scandal
- The Campaign That Changed How Americans Give to Charity
- Why a Forgotten KKK Raid on a Gay Club in Miami Still Matters 80 Years Later
- ‘It’s Sad That Her Name Has Become a Joke.’ What to Know About the Real Pocahontas
- Why Michael Jackson’s Biggest Success Was a Surprise
- How Real ‘Rosie the Riveters’ Discovered a Wartime California Dream
- Rex Tillerson Could Become One of the Shortest-Serving Secretaries of State
- ‘We Need a Day.’ Meet the Man Who Helped Create World AIDS Day
- What It Was Like to Witness the World’s First Self-Sustained Nuclear Chain Reaction
- Filmmaking Has a Gender Problem. Here’s What Happened When Canada Tried to Solve It
- How the Nazi Propaganda Machine Used ‘Fake News’
- 50 Years Ago This Week: How Hollywood Changed in the 1960s
- Even European History’s Most Powerful Women Were Vulnerable to Sexual Harassment
- Masterpiece Cakeshop Isn’t the First to Bake Larger Meaning Into Wedding Cakes
- The 1995 Law Behind President Trump’s Plan to Move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
- Here’s the History of TIME’s Person of the Year Franchise
- What It Means When TIME’s Person of the Year Is a Group
- The Economic Lessons of Ancient Roman Moneylending
- ‘There’s a Bond Between Us.’ 104-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Veteran Reflects on 76th Anniversary
- U.S. States Tried Decriminalizing Pot Before. Here’s Why It Didn’t Work