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History: Part 41
- The Real Story Behind Queen Elizabeth’s Friendship With Evangelist Billy Graham
- Billy Graham at Home: Rare Photos From the LIFE Archives
- Here’s a Timeline of the Major Gun Control Laws in America
- There’s a True Story Behind Black Panther’s Strong Women. Here’s Why That Matters
- In 1961 a Plane Crash Killed the Entire U.S. Figure Skating Team. Here’s How the Tragic Legacy Lives On
- How Angels in America First Reminded the World That ‘Plays Can Matter’
- Here’s What Happened When the Supreme Court Ruled on Whether Students Can Protest During School
- How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery
- The Eerie Gravestone Where Frankenstein’s Story Began
- Researchers Claim Their Evidence Exposes Winston Churchill’s Secret Affair
- Global Lessons From the Rise and Fall of History’s Biggest Factories
- Billy Graham Will Be the Fourth Private Citizen Ever to Lie in Honor at the U.S. Capitol
- The True History Behind The Looming Tower: How the Story Began
- Vintage Posters Show How the Idea of the ‘Strong Woman’ Evolved
- This Government Report Showed How Racism Was Dividing America 50 Years Ago. Its Prediction Is Haunting
- She Exposed the Discrimination in College Sports Before Title IX. Now She’s a Women’s History Month Honoree
- Trump Wants to Impose Steel Tariffs. It Didn’t Work for Bush
- How One Woman Challenged Discrimination in Hollywood More Than 75 Years Ago
- One Important Difference Between Gary Oldman’s Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and the Real Prime Minister
- The Academy Awards Scandal That First Got PwC Its Job Counting Oscars Votes
- Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin and Making a Funny Movie About Real Historical Trauma
- Wartime Leadership Lessons From Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill
- This Photo of Harriet Tubman Was Lost for Close to a Century
- Women’s Movements Are Facing Internal Divisions. History Shows That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
- The Radical Reason Why March 8 Is International Women’s Day
- The Women’s History Hidden in America’s Nuclear Past
- President Trump Offered a History Lesson on Tariffs. Here’s What He Left Out
- RuPaul’s Drag Race and What People Get Wrong About the History of Drag
- The Surprisingly Poetic Origins of the Phrase ‘March Madness’
- This Historian Studied Decades of American Resistance. Here’s Her Advice for the Parkland Students
- The Surprising Broadway Musical That Provided the Soundtrack to a Real-Life Royal Romance
- What Happened When TIME Met Stephen Hawking 30 Years Ago
- Student Walkouts Have Changed American History Before. Here’s How
- There’s a Subtle Feminist Message in This New Painting of Donald Trump
- The Photographer Who Showed the World What Really Happened at My Lai
- The History Behind 7 Passover Traditions
- The True Story Behind the Movie 7 Days in Entebbe
- Only One Man Was Found Guilty for His Role in the My Lai Massacre. This Is What It Was Like to Cover His Trial
- There’s a Serious Story Behind Mexico’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
- New Orleans Mayor on Fixing the Story of Race in America: ‘If It Was Taught One Way, It Can Be Unlearned’
- The Way People Experience Emotion Evolves Over Time. Recognizing That Fact Has Changed Our Understanding of the Past
- How the Man Who Brought the Cherry Blossoms to Washington Narrowly Avoided a Diplomatic Crisis
- Mercury Is Entering Retrograde Again. This Is Why So Many People Care
- This Man Was Chosen to Represent the Class of 1968. Here’s What He Thinks His Generation Achieved
- How Early Warnings About the Effect of Television on American Politics Came True
- I’m a Historian, and I Think Women’s History Month Is a Mistake
- Why John Bolton Couldn’t Get Confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- The Navy Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Missing Man From the Sinking of a WWII Cruiser
- What Americans Think About Presidential Scandals Like the Stormy Daniels Story Has Changed. But Not How You’d Expect
- ‘A Little Package of Dynamite.’ The Things People Said About Viagra When It Was Released 20 Years Ago
- Pioneering Labor Activist Dolores Huerta: Women ‘Never Think of Getting Credit’ But Now That’s Changing
- I See Your Picture Wherever I Go: Prince in the LIFE Archive
- ‘All Deliberate Speed Meant Never‘: Integration Icon James Meredith on Linda Brown’s Unfulfilled Legacy
- Baseball’s Spring Training Remained Segregated Long After Jackie Robinson. This Forgotten Doctor Helped End the Practice
- The Debate Over a New Citizenship Question Isn’t the First Census Fight. Here’s Why the Count Is Controversial
- John Lewis: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Greatest Gift Was the ‘Belief in Society’s Ability to Change’
- Linda Brown’s Legacy and the Hidden Ripple Effect of Brown v. Board of Education
- The Idea of Drone Warfare Is Older Than You May Think
- The Whitewashing — and Resurrection — of Dr. King’s Legacy
- How to Wish Someone a ‘Happy Passover’
- The Real Reason Why Mary Magdalene Is Such a Controversial Figure
- How Loyola Chicago’s Basketball Team Shattered a Racial Barrier for Black Athletes 55 Years Ago
- How Poetry Helped Sustain John McCain During His Years as a Prisoner of War
- See Poignant Footage From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Birthday Party
- 6 Books to Read in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death
- What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Campaigns
- What We Know About Why James Earl Ray Killed Martin Luther King Jr.
- How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Children Are Carrying on His Legacy 50 Years After His Death
- 5 Things Written by Martin Luther King Jr. That Everyone Should Read, According to an Expert
- 5 Things to Know About Maya Angelou’s Complicated, Meaningful Life
- Only One Official Eulogy Was Delivered at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Public Funeral. Read the Full Text Here
- Commemorations in Memphis Show That How We Remember Martin Luther King Jr. Is Changing
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision Was More Global Than We Remember. The World Mourned Him Accordingly
- 10 Historians on What People Still Don’t Know About Martin Luther King Jr.
- What Made Robert F. Kennedy’s Speech on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death So Special
- Octavia Butler 101: Two Scholars on the Sci-Fi Genius Who Inspired Janelle Monáe
- What Was Missing From Memphis on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination
- The True Story Behind Chappaquiddick
- How Robert Mueller Is Learning from Ken Starr’s Mistakes
- How Black Women Have Influenced American Style and Beauty
- 5 of Modern History’s Most Persistent Myths About the Gender Wage Gap
- The Hidden Link Between Mass Shootings in the U.S. and the Global Economic History of the Firearms Industry
- Walter Mondale on 50 Years of the Fair Housing Act and the Problem With Purging a President’s Cabinet
- Victorian Law Prevented a Widower From Marrying His Deceased Wife’s Sister. Here’s How That Changed
- ‘You Have to Stand Up to Evil’: Madeleine Albright on Facing Fascism and What She Worries About Most Right Now
- Survey Reveals Gaps in Knowledge of Holocaust History—And That Most Americans Believe It Could Happen Again
- Why Scooter Libby Didn’t Get a Presidential Pardon Until Just Now
- A Long, Brutal History of Chemical Weapons Lies Behind Trump’s Decision to Order Airstrikes in Syria
- The U.S. Government Used Disney Cartoons to Convince Americans That Paying Taxes Is a Privilege
- New York City Just Removed a Statue of Surgeon J. Marion Sims From Central Park. Here’s Why
- Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dies at 92
- See Barbara and George H.W. Bush’s Historically Long Love Story in Photos
- Inside Barbara Bush’s Quiet Yet Forceful Influence on American Politics
- The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Is About Much More Than Just the Uprising
- How the Real Pilots of Mercury 13 Made the Case for the U.S. to Send Women to Space
- Behind the Photo That Made People Think Earth Day Was Founded by a Convicted Killer
- The History of Black Female Superheroes Is More Complicated Than You Probably Think
- Who Reached the North Pole First? How the Battle Over That Question Created a More Cynical World
- What The Handmaid’s Tale Gets Right—and Wrong—About the History of Women and Resistance
- The True Cost of the Chernobyl Disaster Has Been Greater Than It Seems