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History: Part 44
- Brett Kavanaugh Isn’t the First Supreme Court Nominee Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Here’s What Happened Before
- The Surprising Story of the Only Cat Ever to Win the Highest Honor for Animal Military Gallantry
- His Face Was Used to Symbolize Vietnam Prisoners of War. This Is His Real Story
- What to Know About the Real Author Who Inspired the Movie Colette
- From ‘Hanoi Jane’ to the Workout: A Brief History of Jane Fonda’s Activism
- Anita Hill’s Testimony Didn’t Stop a Supreme Court Confirmation—But It Did Affect Election Results
- How a Lawsuit Against Coca-Cola Convinced Americans to Love Caffeine
- The True History of America’s Private Prison Industry
- Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong
- What to Know About the Surprising Modern History of Contraception
- A Perfect Lie Detector Has Never Been Found. Here’s Where Polygraphs Like Christine Blasey Ford’s Come In
- What to Know About Murphy Brown‘s History of Making Real-World News
- Aretha Franklin Never Saw This Picture of Herself. Here’s the Story Behind the Previously Unpublished Portrait
- The Boeing 747 Is Turning 50. Here’s How the ‘Queen of the Skies’ Came to Reign Over Air Travel
- Wearing a Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness? Here’s How Awareness Ribbons Became a Thing
- Why Beer Is the World’s Most Beloved Drink
- The Early Christians Were Focused on Solidarity Across Race, Class and Gender. Then Things Changed
- What Kanye West Got Right and Wrong About the 13th Amendment, According to Historians
- Queen Elizabeth’s Childhood Governess Wrote a Smash-Hit Memoir. It Wrecked Her Relationship With the Royal Family
- Bram Stoker Claimed That Parts of Dracula Were Real. Here’s What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel
- Landlocked Bolivia Wants a Path to the Pacific. Here’s Why That Won’t Be Happening Any Time Soon
- What to Know About the Original A Star Is Born—and the Other Versions, Too
- More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here’s Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn’t Better Known
- The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who ‘Discovered America’
- The Meaning of ‘Presumed Innocent’ Has Evolved. Here’s How the Kavanaugh Hearings Fit Into That History
- Columbus Believed He Would Find ‘Blemmyes’ and ‘Sciapods’ — Not People — in the New World
- How One Anti-Slavery Advocate Used the Declaration of Independence to Argue for Abolition
- World War I’s Most Legendary American Soldier Didn’t Want to Fight. Here’s What Changed the Pacifist’s Mind
- The Surprising Role of Circus Performers in the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
- What Shakespeare’s Wife Could Tell Us
- Michael Beschloss Spent 10 Years Studying Presidents at War. The Worst Parts of That History Are Still Worth Worrying About
- Why Modern Misogynists Love Ancient History, and What They Get Wrong About It, According to an Expert
- Humans Are Hardwired to Tell History in Stories. Neuroscience Tells Us Why We Get Them Wrong
- The Fight for Women’s Suffrage in the U.K. Didn’t Just Happen in Big Cities
- When Neil Armstrong Went to the Moon, He Brought Souvenirs of the Wright Brothers’ Flight. Now They’re for Sale
- The Crucial Connection Between The Romanoffs and the True History of Russia’s Last Imperial Family
- What Made Neil Armstrong the Right Man to Be First on the Moon, as Told in 1969
- Norman Rockwell’s Vision of the Four Freedoms Left Some People Out. These Artists Are Trying to Fill Those Gaps
- ‘It’s the Legacy of Slavery’: Here’s the Troubling History Behind Tipping Practices in the U.S.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Going Down Under. Here’s What to Know About Britain’s Tangled Role in the Region
- Colorado Was the First State to Enfranchise Women Through Popular Referendum. Here’s How It Happened
- Best-Selling Historian Joseph J. Ellis Explains What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong
- Women Achieved Enormous Power in Ancient Egypt. What They Did With It Is a Warning for Today
- The True Story Behind the Movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Inside the Day That Turned Jacqueline Kennedy Into ‘Jackie O.’
- Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test and the Difficult History of Looking for Answers in Blood
- Trump Is Hitting the Midterm Campaign Trail Hard. History Shows That Doesn’t Always Make a Difference
- What to Know About the Rise and Fall of the Theory That the Smurfs Are Communists
- Socialism Was Once America’s Political Taboo. Now, Democratic Socialism Is a Viable Platform. Here’s What to Know
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Honoring a Fijian War Hero. Here’s What to Know About Him
- How the Gun Control Act of 1968 Changed America’s Approach to Firearms—And What People Get Wrong About That History
- The Idea of a ‘DNA Test’ for Transgender People Is Part of a Long, Dark History
- The Real Reason People Carve Jack-O’-Lanterns for Halloween
- Trump Wants to Leave a Nuclear-Weapons Treaty. Here’s What Happened When Arms Control Failed in the 1930s
- Mail Bombs Rocked American Politics a Century Ago. Here’s What a Historian Thinks That Moment Has to Teach Us
- What Does It Mean to Discriminate Because of ‘Sex?’ How the Legal Meaning of That Word Has Evolved
- What Is Samhain? What to Know About the Ancient Pagan Festival That Came Before Halloween
- Trump Wants to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. Here’s What to Know About Why That Right Exists
- What the Constitution Really Says About Birthright Citizenship
- What This Is Us Gets Right and Wrong About the Vietnam War, According to an Expert
- Emmett Till’s Death Could Easily Have Been Forgotten. Here’s How It Became a Civil Rights Turning Point Instead
- The Pittsburgh Attack Inspired Calls for Tikkun Olam. What to Know About the Evolution of an Influential Jewish Idea
- The Movie Peterloo Is Based on a Real Massacre. Here’s What to Know About the True Story
- The Nearest Thing to Heaven: A Statue’s Lesson of Faith
- Freddie Mercury Didn’t Want to Be a ‘Poster Boy’ for AIDS — But He and Other Celebrities Played a Key Role in Its History
- Journalistic Objectivity Evolved the Way It Did for a Reason
- Why Do Midterm Elections Even Exist? Here’s Why the Framers Scheduled Things This Way
- Original Black Panther Bobby Seale Explains the History Behind That Viral Photo of Armed Stacey Abrams Supporters
- The True Story Behind The Front Runner: How Gary Hart’s Scandal Changed Politics
- As Florida Restores Ex-Felons’ Right to Vote, Here’s the Dark History Behind Their Disenfranchisement
- A Century After Armistice, the American Popular Memory of World War I Is Still Shaped by Snoopy
- How the End of World War I Brought the Beginning of Drone Warfare
- How Poppies Became a Symbol of Remembrance After World War I
- What the Artist Behind a Comics-Style History of Anti-Fascist Resistance Thinks You Should Know About Antifa
- An Armistice Ended Fighting in World War I a Century Ago. Real Peace Took Longer
- The Mysterious Story of the Last American Soldier to Die in World War I
- Jewish Germans Had Their Lives Destroyed by Nazis During Kristallnacht. Their Neighbors Let It Happen
- The True Story Behind Outlaw King: What to Know About Scottish Independence Hero Robert the Bruce
- Is It Right to Blame World War I’s Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
- How Nurses in World War I Helped Change Ideas About What Women Could Accomplish
- Artists Create Giant Portraits on UK Beaches Honoring World War I Soldiers on the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day
- African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in World War I Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn’t
- The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Not a New Idea
- How Stanley Lieber Wrote His First Comics Story and Became ‘Stan Lee’
- Why the U.S. and Britain Went Back to War Just a Few Decades After the Revolution
- The Concept of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ Dates to 1970. The Phenomenon Is Thousands of Years Older
- Churchill’s Surprising Anti-Americanism And What Changed
- The U.S. Military Had to Clean Up After the Jonestown Massacre 40 Years Ago. What the Crew Found Was ‘Beyond Imagination’
- Organized Crime Lurks Everywhere in My Brilliant Friend. Here’s the Real Story of the Rise of the Naples Underworld
- They Fled the Nazis as Children. Now They Want Their Adopted Homeland to Welcome Other Refugees Too
- The Definition of a Kilogram Just Changed. That’s a Major Milestone in the Grand History of the Metric System
- These Five Paintings Shattered Auction Records in the Last 12 Months
- The Movie Green Book Is Named for a Real Guide to Travel in a Segregated World. Its Real History Offers a Key Lesson for Today
- How Power Lines Have Changed the History of the American Wildfire—And Could Change It Again
- Buttonholes for a Royal Bride: What It Was Like to Help Make Queen Elizabeth’s 1947 Wedding Dress
- The Real Reason Why Thanksgiving Is Always on a Thursday
- The Lame Duck Session Is a Dangerous Time for Congress. Here’s What House Democrats Can Learn From History
- Inside the Unsung Life of the Man Who Was John F. Kennedy’s Most Personal Assistant
- Why America’s Founders Tried to Recruit a Foreign Prince to Be Their King—And How That Moment Holds a Warning for Today
- The Most Iconic Episode From the Life of Blackbeard Is How It Ended. Here’s How the Pirate Really Died