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History: Part 40
- Tonya Harding’s World Was Nothing Like Nancy Kerrigan’s. That Mattered in 1994
- ‘Mississippi Is Ready, Finally, to Tell the Truth.’ Inside the State’s Historic New Civil Rights Museum
- How France’s Most Daring WWII Saboteur Got Behind Enemy Lines
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Inside the First Heart Transplant
- The Surprising Origins of 5 Hanukkah Traditions
- Why Questlove’s Discovery About His Ancestry on Finding Your Roots Is So Unusual
- What Happened in Alabama’s First Senate Special Election Still Matters
- The Mane Event: LIFE’s 25 Most Memorable Horses
- ‘It’s Almost About Anything But the Guns’: Sandy Hook and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
- ‘Molding Myths and Spinning Fantasies’: Read Walt Disney’s Obituary From 1966
- Here’s What Benjamin Franklin Scholars Think About Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Ode to the Inventor
- 50 Years Ago This Week: Bob Hope Goes to Vietnam
- 7 Reasons Why Titanic the Movie Could Have Been a Shipwreck, Too
- Lessons for 2018 From One of America’s Most Tumultuous Years
- The True Story Behind Katharine Graham’s Rise to Publisher in The Post
- The True Story Behind the HBO Miniseries Gunpowder
- Candy Canes Are Everywhere During Christmas. Here’s Why
- When This City Was Devastated by a Massive Explosion, Its Children Found the Christmas Spirit
- The True History of St. Nicholas Is a Christmas Mystery
- In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2017
- How the U.S. Used Jazz as a Cold War Secret Weapon
- 50 Years Ago This Week: 1967 in Review
- The True Story of the Kidnapping Behind All the Money in the World
- The True Story Behind The Post
- In Memoriam 2017: How 11 Notable People Were Remembered This Year
- 11 of the Most Fascinating Obituaries From 2017
- The Real Reason People Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on New Year’s Eve
- The History Behind 25 Holidays Coming Up in 2018
- The Creepy Source of the Blood in the First Blood Bank
- The Inspiring Depression-Era Story of How the ‘March of Dimes’ Got Its Name
- Lessons of the Gruesome Case Behind One of America’s Last Legal Executions by Hanging
- ‘They Didn’t Change at All’: The Persistence of Charlie Hebdo
- A Brief History of Sports and Politics on the Korean Peninsula
- Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly?
- Don’t Forget That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Once Denounced as an Extremist
- Trump Likes the Idea of Taping Meetings. Here’s Why That’s Controversial
- The Surprising Story Behind This Shocking Photo of Martin Luther King Jr. Under Attack
- Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s Lessons About Peaceful Protests Are Still Relevant
- How Trump’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Comment Echoes a Century of American Immigration Policy
- ‘A Lot Is Still So Much the Same’: Misty Copeland on Decades of Racism and Ballet
- The Complicated History of Surrogacy From ‘Baby M’ to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
- Allied Leaders at Casablanca: The Story Behind a Famous WWII Photo Shoot
- The Real Tragedy Behind Dolores O’Riordan’s Biggest Hit With the Cranberries
- Here’s How One Family Prepared for Nuclear War in 1954
- How a Protest by Roman Women Helped Change an Ancient Law
- Why Government Shutdowns Are a Much Bigger Deal Than They Used to Be
- 7 Signs and Pictures That Helped Define American Protest Movements
- Immigration Debates Have Always Been Tied to America’s Moments of Crisis
- Behind the Anti-War Protests That Swept America in 1968
- The Surprisingly Complicated Meaning of Chicago West’s Name
- Roe v. Wade Lawyer ‘Amazed’ Americans Still Fighting Over Abortion
- Ann Curry: We’re All Living Through a Moment That Will Make History
- How One Scientist Broke Through the ‘Brick Wall’ for Women in Chemistry
- Everyone Was Wrong About the Real ‘Rosie the Riveter’ for Decades. Here’s How the Mystery Was Solved
- How an FBI Agent and a Waco Survivor on Opposite Sides of the Deadly Standoff United for a New Show About the Tragedy
- The Real Story Behind the Waco Siege: Who Were David Koresh and the Branch Davidians?
- Alleged Letter From Alcatraz Prisoner Suggests Inmates Survived 1962 Escape
- The Complicated Story Behind Jane Fonda’s ‘Hanoi Jane’ Nickname
- How ‘Here Comes the Bride’ Became the Song You Hear at Every Wedding Ceremony
- ‘A Frightening Time in Our History’: What Americans Really Thought About the Pentagon Papers
- President Trump Is Actually Allowed to Have Robert Mueller Fired, According to the Constitution
- The Worst Flu Pandemic of the 20th Century Has an Urgent Lesson for Today
- ‘We Weren’t Prepared for This.’ Inside the Accidental Liberation of a Concentration Camp
- How the State of the Union Address Made Its Broadcast Debut
- The Surprisingly Complicated Symbolism of the Freedom Statue Mentioned in Trump’s State of the Union
- Trump Mentioned the Pledge of Allegiance Pose in His State of the Union. Here’s the Real Reason for the Hand-on-Heart Gesture
- One of History’s Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of the Black History Month Story
- ‘We Can Be a Better Country If We Know These Stories.’ The Complicated History of African Americans in the Military
- Why Carter G. Woodson Is the ‘Father of Black History’
- Punxsutawney Phil Isn’t the Only Groundhog. These Others Have More Accurate Groundhog Day Predictions
- How a Self-Made 18th-Century Tycoon Built the First Charity for Kids
- Super Bowl Rings Keep Getting Bigger. What to Know About the Flashy Football Tradition
- The Nunes Memo Release Is an ‘Extraordinary Event’ in the History of Intelligence Oversight
- Natalie Wood’s Death Has Been Ruled Suspicious. Here’s What to Know About the Actor’s Mysterious Drowning
- Who Is Elizabeth Blackwell? Why Google Is Celebrating the Pioneer
- How American Inequality in the Gilded Age Compares to Today
- What 100 Years of British Women’s Suffrage Says About Women’s Rights Today
- The Fight for British Women’s Suffrage Was More Violent Than We Remember
- How Drama Between North and South Korea Threatened the Olympics 30 Years Ago
- The Mascot for the 2018 Winter Olympics Is Soohorang the Tiger. Here’s Why
- From the ‘Pocahontas Exception’ to a ‘Historical Wrong’: The Hidden Cost of Formal Recognition for American Indian Tribes
- The Obamas’ Official Portraits Are Being Unveiled. Here’s What to Know About the History of Presidential Paintings
- Read the Letter a Black Civil War Soldier Wrote Asking Abraham Lincoln for Equal Pay
- The History Behind 5 of New Orleans’ Favorite Mardi Gras Traditions
- The Mysterious History of the Real Saint Behind Valentine’s Day
- How the Modern Valentine’s Day Card Evolved
- ‘A Game Changer.’ How a Painting of President Obama Broke the Rules
- Exclusive: Congressman John Lewis’ Next Book, Run, Will Pick Up Where Award-Winning March Left Off
- Chester A. Arthur Is the Most Forgotten President in U.S. History, According to Science
- Why Americans Started Buying Military-Style Weapons Like the One Used in the Florida Shooting
- What We Can Still Learn From the Women’s Suffrage Statue at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
- Presidents’ Day Quiz: Can You Put the U.S. Presidents In Order?
- 5 Unusual Moments in Presidential History, Picked by an Expert
- President Trump Ranks Last in ‘Presidential Greatness,’ According to Historians
- The Book That Preserved What African Americans Who Knew Abraham Lincoln Thought of Him
- The Olympics Brought North and South Korea Together. But Hope for a Unified Korea Is ‘Withering Away’
- What Gordon Parks Taught Me
- ‘I Am Selling the Greatest Product in the World.’ Inside Billy Graham’s Evangelism Machine
- From Humble Beginnings to ‘Pastor in Chief’: How TIME Covered the Evolution of Billy Graham
- Students Calling for Gun Control Can’t Vote Yet. But Age Hasn’t Stopped Young Activists in the Past