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History: Part 46
- How Lorena Bobbitt’s Place in the Conversation About Domestic Violence Has Evolved
- Americans Already Celebrate Presidents’ Day. Here’s the Case for Celebrating the First Ladies Too
- See Behind the Scenes as the Statue of Liberty’s Original Torch Moves to Its New Home
- Inside One Man’s Trip to the Idaho Camp Where His Great-Grandparents Were Held During World War II
- How One Man’s Autograph Collection Is a Surprising Window Into a Changing World
- Why Does Hollywood Roll Out a Red Carpet? Here’s How the Oscars Tradition Began
- These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell
- Is If Beale Street Could Talk Based on a True Story? The Answer Is Complicated
- Trump and Kim Could Declare an End to the Korean War After Seven Decades. How Are the U.S. and North Korea Still at War?
- State Incentives for Attracting Business Were Controversial Long Before Amazon. Here’s What That History Can Teach Us
- ‘You Can’t Push the Land Too Hard.’ How Mapping the Grand Canyon Shaped a Vision of Climate Trouble to Come
- Not Every Woman Who Served With the U.S. Military During World War I Got the Same Treatment. Here’s Why
- The Green New Deal’s Supporters Should Take a Crucial Lesson From FDR’s Original New Deal
- These Pictures by Early African-American Photographers Did More Than Capture a Moment
- ‘America Has Been Divided Since the Beginning.’ One Author on Why Educating Kids About Race in the U.S. Is More Important Than Ever
- The Vatican Will Unseal Records About Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII. Here’s What We Already Know About His Controversial Legacy
- Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History
- How One Daring Woman Introduced the Idea of Smallpox Inoculation to England
- The Real Military Program That Inspired Top Gun Just Turned 50. Here’s How Being a Navy Pilot Has Changed Since Then
- England’s Most Dangerous Suffragette Was Too Radical to Remember. Her Part in Women’s History Shouldn’t Be Glossed Over
- ‘Lucy Stone, If You Please’: The Unsung Suffragist Who Fought for Women to Keep Their Maiden Names
- How an Italian Hospital Saved Patients From Nazis by Inventing a Fake Disease
- What One German Diary Reveals About Hitler’s Attempt to Protect His Country With a Wall
- An Irish-American Army Invaded Canada in 1866. Here’s What Happened
- The Full Story of Pocahontas Is Rarely Told. Here’s What We’re Missing
- Does Einstein’s First Wife Deserve Some Credit for His Work? That’s the Wrong Question to Ask
- Shamrocks Are Everywhere on St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s How the Three-Leaf Clover Became a Symbol of All Things Irish
- ‘I Don’t See the World With Rose-Tinted Glasses.’ What Happens When Young Environmental Activists Grow Up
- What The Highwaymen Gets Right and Wrong About the Murder of Bonnie and Clyde
- What Historians of Fascism Think About the Suspected New Zealand Shooter’s Declaration of Extremism
- Some White Southerners Didn’t Want to Secede During the Civil War—Or Build Confederate Monuments After
- The Meaning Behind 5 of the Most Popular Purim Traditions
- The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’
- Looted by Nazis, Recovered, Sold Back to Hitler’s Photographer’s Daughter—How One Painting Got Back to Its Rightful Owners
- Georgia O’Keeffe Reveals Inspiration Behind Some of Her Most Famous Paintings in Newly Uncovered Letters
- Why Federal Laws Don’t Explicitly Ban Discrimination Against LGBT Americans
- The True Story Behind the Movie Hotel Mumbai
- What to Know About the Origins of Fascism’s Brutal Ideology
- Behind the Photo: How John Lennon and Yoko Ono Came Up With the Idea of Their Bed-In for Peace
- Everyone Got to Read the Starr Report on Bill Clinton. Here’s Why the Mueller Report May Not Get the Same Treatment
- American History Has Some Lessons for the Next Phase of the Mueller Investigation
- What to Know About the U.S. Presidents Who’ve Been Impeached
- What’s Intersectionality? Let These Scholars Explain the Theory and Its History
- Eight Decades After Spain’s Civil War, a Controversial Monument Still Haunts the Country
- The Enduring Mystery of Walt Whitman’s Meditation on Love and Sexuality
- The Story We’ve Been Told About America’s National Parks Is Incomplete
- Wives of Vietnam POWs Were Told to Keep Quiet About Their Husbands’ Captivity. Here’s What Convinced Them to Go Public
- Was Barbara Bush a Feminist? Here’s What Her Biographer Says
- How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism
- The Inextricable Role of Gender in the History of Fact-Checking
- Time Appears to Have Run Out on the Last Nazi War Crimes Trials. But There Are Other Roads to Justice
- Why History Looks Different Through a Mother’s Eyes
- Biographer Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson Volume
- Breaking Down the Complicated Relationship Between Russia and NATO
- Google Honors Pioneering Physicist Hedwig Kohn Who Fled Nazi Germany
- The Palestinian Issue Used to Be a Major Factor in Israeli Elections. Here’s Why It Hasn’t Been This Time
- We Remember Killers, But Not Those Who Die. A New Book About Jack the Ripper’s Victims Wants to Change That
- Virginia Hall Was America’s Most Successful Female WWII Spy. But She Was Almost Kept From Serving
- This Controversial History Book Is Causing a Stir in France and Beyond. Here’s Why
- Reagan Administration Officials at First Dismissed the Ozone Hole. Here’s What Changed
- It’s Complicated: From the Roman Empire to Brexit, Britain Has Always Struggled to Define Its Relationship With Europe
- Why Is Easter So Late This Year?
- A Century After a Massacre in India During British Colonial Rule, the U.K. Faces Demands for an Apology
- The Legend of Robin Hood Is Centuries Old—But the Way We Tell His Story Has Changed
- What to Know About the Origins and Meanings of the Major Holy Week Rituals
- White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It’s Time to Reclaim the Real History
- West Virginia Is Looking for the Descendants of Civil War Veterans Who Never Claimed Their Medals
- A Major Moment Took Place in the Crypts Beneath Winterfell. Here’s the Real History Behind the Key Game of Thrones Location
- Notre Dame Cathedral’s History Has Always Been One of Destruction and Restoration
- Don’t Feel Bad About Getting Take-Out. That’s Been Normal for Thousands of Years
- The Notre Dame Fire Put Priceless Art and Artifacts at Risk. Here’s What Survived — and What Didn’t
- How a Royal Baby Is Born, From Tudor Times to Meghan Markle’s Modernity
- ‘I Feel Like This Is My Destiny.’ Inside an Annual Gathering of Abraham Lincoln Impersonators
- From Nina Simone to Maya Angelou: How Beyoncé Honors 9 Black Icons in Her Homecoming Documentary
- Did the 10 Plagues of Egypt Really Happen? Here Are 3 Theories
- What Was the Biggest Political Scandal in American History? 7 Historians Make Their Picks
- ‘A Toxic Representation of History.’ Ancestry Pulls Ad After Criticism That It Romanticized Slavery
- Meet ‘Mr. Earth Day,’ the Man Who Helped Organize the Annual Observance
- How the Black Colleges Beyoncé Honors in Homecoming Have Played a Vital Role in American History
- 130 Years After Hitler’s Birth, He Continues to Live as a Symbol of Evil
- The Surprising Link Between U.S. Marijuana Law and the History of Immigration
- What a Watergate Expert Thinks of the Mueller Report
- The Value of Ranking the U.S. Presidents
- There’s a Real-Life Inspiration for Game of Thrones’ Valyrian Steel. Here’s How Its Long-Lost Secrets Were Revealed
- What We Get Wrong About the American Heartland
- Where Brexit Fits in the Long British History of Petitioning Parliament
- Does the Vice Presidency Give Joe Biden an Advantage in the Race to the Top? Here’s How VPs Before Him Fared
- The Real History of Medieval Knights Makes Brienne’s Big Game of Thrones Moment Even More Meaningful
- The True Story Behind the Rudolf Nureyev Movie The White Crow
- 50 Years After Stonewall, We’re Still Disagreeing About What Happened There. That’s Why the Archives Matter
- A Century Ago, May Day Brought Anarchist Bombs to Mailboxes—And Helped Transform American Politics
- Why Auschwitz Plays Such a Central Role in Holocaust Remembrance
- The Freedom of the Press Is Enshrined in the First Amendment—But What That Means Has Changed
- A Beluga Whale Is Allegedly a Russian Spy. There’s a Long History of Marine Mammals in the Military
- ‘Those Are Things You Don’t Forget.’ How a Young Audrey Hepburn Helped the Dutch Resistance During World War II
- 49 Years After the Kent State Shootings, New Photos Are Revealed
- ‘The Word Is Camp’: What to Know About the Inspiration for This Year’s Met Gala, as Explained in 1964
- Hamburgers Have Been Conscripted Into the Fight Over the Green New Deal. The History of American Beef Shows Why
- The Lesson of America’s Most Famous World War I Draft Dodger
- Why Harper Lee Struggled to Write Again After To Kill a Mockingbird