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History: Part 43
- How the 14th Amendment’s Promise of Birthright Citizenship Redefined America
- Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Puts Spotlight on Roe v. Wade on 150th Anniversary of the Amendment That Made the Case Possible
- ‘It’s Not That the Story Was Buried.’ What Americans in the 1930s Really Knew About What Was Happening in Germany
- 5 Reasons Why Supreme Court Nominations Have Failed
- Here’s How Every Meeting Between the Queen and a U.S. President Went
- The Backlash Against Plastic Straws Is Spreading. Here’s How They Got So Popular in the First Place
- 5 World Leaders Whose Visits to the U.K. Sparked Controversy
- The Justice Department Has Reopened Its Investigation of Emmett Till’s Murder. Here Are 5 Things to Know About the Case
- The ‘Special Relationship’ Between the U.S. and U.K. Is Unlike Any Other Alliance. Here’s How It Got That Way
- The Surprising Reason Why So Many Civil War Memorials Look Almost Exactly the Same
- A Record-Breaking Heatwave Is Revealing the Long-Lost History of the British Isles
- The Deep History Behind Barack Obama’s Speech for the Centennial of Nelson Mandela’s Birth
- The Romanov Family Died a Century Ago. It’s Time to Lay the Myths About Them to Rest, Too
- The U.S. Government Had Nelson Mandela on Terrorist Watch Lists Until 2008. Here’s Why
- Trump Wants to Redesign Air Force One. Here’s Why the Presidential Plane Looks the Way It Does
- ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Was a Complicated Turning Point for Gay Rights. 25 Years Later, Many of the Same Issues Remain
- How the First Amendment Became a Tool for Deregulation
- What Is Privacy? The Answer Has Been Changing for Decades
- The Surprising Story of World War I’s Only Attack on U.S. Soil
- Still Fighting: Inside the Dedication of the National Confederate Museum
- How to Live ‘Amid the Silence of the Woods,’ According to America’s First Camping Guide
- Here’s Why the Endangered Species Act Was Created in the First Place
- What It Was Like to Grow Up as the World’s First ‘Test-Tube Baby’
- How Internships Replaced the Entry-Level Job
- What the State of the American South a Half-Century Ago Revealed About the Whole Country’s Future
- A Hidden Lesson in the Carter Page Warrant, According to an FBI Historian
- The History Behind the Date Chosen for the Repatriation of Korean War Remains
- Benedict Arnold Is America’s Most Famous Traitor. But You Probably Don’t Know His Whole Story
- Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate
- See the Original Concept Art That Helped Take Disneyland From Dream to Reality
- What to Know About Gerda Taro, the War Photographer Celebrated By Today’s Google Doodle
- A Lawyer Changed the Course of the Watergate Investigation. Michael Cohen Could Play a Parallel Role
- The Gun That Sparked the 3D-Printed Weapons Debate Has an Unexpected WWII History
- How Fascism’s Influence Endured in Italy Long After Mussolini’s Death
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wishes This Case Had Legalized Abortion Instead of Roe v. Wade
- The Story Behind the Only Known Photo of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy Together
- Monica Lewinsky’s Grand Jury Testimony Shows How Much and How Little Progress America Has Made in 20 Years
- How the U.S. and Japan Became Allies Even After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- The Way America Fights Wildfires Changed 30 Years Ago — But People Keep Making the Situation Worse
- What I Learned Researching the Deadliest School Disaster in American History
- How a Failed Democracy Uprising Set the Stage for Myanmar’s Future
- The Story Behind TIME’s Spike Lee Cover
- The True Story Behind BlacKkKlansman, According to the Man Who Inspired the Movie
- The First Academy Awards Had Two Best Picture Categories, Too
- A Look Back at Asia’s Most Devastating Earthquakes
- The Complicated History Behind Beyoncé’s Discovery About the ‘Love’ Between Her Slave-Owning and Enslaved Ancestors
- Germany Will Now Allow Some Nazi Symbols in Video Games. Here’s What to Know About the History of That Ban
- The First Woman Was Sworn Into the Marine Corps a Century Ago. Now a Group of Veterans Is Trying to Preserve Her Story
- Yes, Congress Faces Obstruction and Gridlock. That’s What the Constitution’s Framers Intended
- The Ultra-Wealthy World of Crazy Rich Asians Is a Real Thing. Here’s Why
- How the U.S. Helped Prevent North Korea and South Korea From Reaching Real Peace in the 1950s
- How to Write a Memoir When Parts of Your Childhood Are Classified
- Read Babe Ruth’s 1948 Obituary: ‘He Was Unforgettable, Even When He Struck Out’
- The Trauma and Resilience Behind Aretha Franklin’s Iconic Soul Music
- How Did Marilyn Monroe Get Her Name? This Photo Reveals the Story
- People Have Been Reusing Clothes Forever But Thrift Shops Are Relatively New. Here’s Why
- What the Man With a Close-Up View of Hitler Thought About the Dictator’s Attitude Toward Women
- Hundreds of Veterans Re-Visit the Intrepid for Aircraft Carrier’s 75th Anniversary
- Walls Don’t Just Keep People Out. History Shows They Also Change the People Inside
- Why UNC’s Toppled ‘Silent Sam’ Statue Has Been a Focus Point of Protest for Decades
- These Men Offered ‘Perfection in Cremation Technology’ to the Nazis. We Can Learn From the Records They Left
- John Dean Helped Expose Nixon’s Role in a Conspiracy. He Says Michael Cohen Just Did the Same to Trump
- These Strands of Lincoln’s Locks Could Sell for Thousands of Dollars. What’s Behind the Fascination With Presidential Hair?
- What People Get Wrong About the History of American Judaism Before the Civil War
- Why the U.S. Has the Campaign Finance Laws That Michael Cohen Broke and What Their History Means for Trump
- The Surprising Story Behind This Picture of Leonard Bernstein Conducting an Orchestra of Holocaust Survivors
- On Women’s Equality Day, Here Are 3 Things to Know About the Suffrage Movement
- Google Doodle Celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday With West Side Story Video
- Inside John McCain’s Journey From Annapolis to the Hanoi Hilton: How He Became a Prisoner of War
- How John McCain’s Years as a Vietnam POW Shaped His Life
- These Never-Before-Published Photos Show Tennis Icon Arthur Ashe Making U.S. Open History
- Sen. Schumer Wants to Rename the Russell Senate Office Building in Honor of John McCain. Who Was Richard Russell?
- The Reason Trump Won’t Be at McCain’s Funeral Is Unusual. But He’s Not the First President to Skip a Significant Memorial
- ‘He Had Transformed’: What It Was Like to Watch Martin Luther King Jr. Give the ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
- ‘Violence Was Inevitable’: How 7 Key Players Remember the Chaos of 1968’s Democratic National Convention Protests
- A Reunion: Discovering My Father’s World War II Heroism
- The True Story Behind the Movie Operation Finale
- Operation Finale Shows the Capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. But What Happened at His Trial Changed History, Too
- How the History of Slavery in America Offers an Important Labor Day Lesson
- The American Dollar Bill Looks the Way It Does for a Reason
- Classicist Mary Beard on Feminism, Online Trolls and What Ancient Rome Can Tell Us About Trump
- 20 Years Of Google Has Changed the Way We Think. Here’s How, According to a Historian of Information
- Diplomatic Back Channels Were Once Seen as a Good Thing. But They’ve Always Been Risky
- How the ‘Red Terror’ Exposed the True Turmoil of Soviet Russia 100 Years Ago
- Why the First Day of School Is Time to Remember the ‘Teacher Power’ Movement of the 1960s
- Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Looks to Past Presidents for Lessons the World Could Use Right Now
- Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Weren’t Always Such a Spectacle. There’s a Reason That Changed
- The Brazil Museum Fire Was a Stark Reminder That History Is Always in Danger of Being Lost Forever
- The Anonymous Trump Op-Ed Writer Worried the 25th Amendment Could Cause a Crisis. Preventing Crisis Is Why It Exists
- An Anonymous Trump Official Claims Insiders Are ‘Thwarting’ Him. That May Have Happened to Nixon Too
- ‘I Was Terrified’: Inside a History-Making Protest With the Women Who Took on the Miss America Competition
- The Meaning Behind 5 of the Most Popular Rosh Hashanah Traditions
- The Costs of Human Spaceflight Are High. History Shows the Benefits Are Too
- Bob Woodward’s New Book Fear Takes on Trump. Here’s What to Know About His History of White House Reporting
- How a Forgotten Rivalry Between Superpowers Helped Shape the Modern Middle East
- What the History of Air-Conditioning Tells Us About the Difficulty of Tackling Climate Change
- The True Story Behind the Movie The Angel
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Survivors Recall a Day That Changed the Fight for Civil Rights: ‘I Will Never Stop Crying Thinking About It’
- Did Lizzie Borden Really Take an Ax? The True Story Behind the Movie Lizzie
- The Fourth of July Is America’s Birthday, But Constitution Day Marks Its Coming of Age