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History: Part 47
- The U.S. Wanted to Hide Nukes in Arctic Ice Tunnels. The Plan Blew Up in Their Faces
- Is Jon Snow’s Royal Claim on Game of Thrones Really Stronger ‘Because He’s a Man’? Here’s What Real Succession Rules Say
- A Smackdown in the Kennedy Clan Summons Up the History of Presidents and Vaccines
- How Military Moms Changed the History of Mother’s Day
- These Presidents Won the Electoral College — But Not the Popular Vote
- We Don’t Have to Imagine the Consequences of Abortion Bans. We Just Have to Look to the Past
- What Came Before Game of Thrones: The 3 Classic Episodes That Made TV Finales Matter
- What Even Happened to the Mountain? What the Real History of Necromancy Tells Us About That Game of Thrones Fight
- How Will Game of Thrones End for Daenerys? Here’s What Real Military History Can Tell Us
- The U.S. Put Norman Mineta in an Incarceration Camp. Then He Went to Congress
- How Cambodia’s Day of Remembrance for Genocide Victims Has Always Been Complicated by Politics
- Trump’s New Plan Would Require Immigrants to Pass a Test. Here’s What Happened When the U.S. Tried That Before
- How One Woman’s Story Led to the Creation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Was Aladdin Based on a Real Person? Here’s Why Scholars Are Starting to Think So
- Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan
- Remembering the Military Brothers Who Were Lost Together at Pearl Harbor
- ‘Sitting on Top of Liquid Dynamite.’ Inside a Long-Lost Eyewitness Account of the Communist Takeover of Shanghai
- Asian American Chefs Are Embracing Spam. But How Did the Canned Meat Make Its Way Into Their Cultures?
- Both the U.S. and Haiti Claim Navassa Island. Here’s Why Its History Matters
- Why Do People Build Walls? The Real Story of Jericho Offers a Surprising Answer
- President Trump Played a Key Role in the Central Park Five Case. Here’s the Real History Behind When They See Us
- Even People Who Were There Still Don’t Agree on How Stonewall Started. Here’s What We Do Know
- He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor
- How a 1959 American Fashion Exhibition Changed the Soviet Union
- How True-Crime Stories Reveal the Overlooked History of Pre-Stonewall Violence Against Queer People
- What Does the ‘D’ in ‘D-Day’ Stand For? Experts Disagree With Eisenhower’s Answer
- A WWII Combat Photographer Was in New York City on D-Day. These Are His Long-Lost Pictures From That Historic Morning
- ‘We’re Still in the Same Boat.’ As the World Marks 75 Years Since D-Day, the Men Who Were There Look Back—and Ahead
- What’s the Most Accurate D-Day Movie? Here’s What 3 Movies Got Right—and Wrong
- The Legacy of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China
- Paternity Testing Had a Long History Before Today’s DNA Kits. The Science Hasn’t Always Matched the Hype
- Americans and Brits Have Been Fighting Over the English Language for Centuries. Here’s How It Started
- President Trump Invoked Executive Privilege. Here’s the History of That Presidential Power
- Judaism and Christianity Both Rely on the Hebrew Bible. Why Do They Interpret It So Differently?
- President Trump Said He Would Take Foreign Campaign Help. Here’s What Past Candidates Did in That Situation
- How TIME’s Reporting on Gay Life in America Shaped—and Skewed—a Generation’s Attitudes
- Pete Buttigieg Says There Have Probably Been Gay Presidents. Here’s Why That Theory Is Complicated
- Remembering Historian Alan Brinkley
- The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here’s What to Know on the Idea’s Tireless Early Advocates
- She Was Born Into Slavery, Was a Spy and Is Celebrated as a Hero—But We’re Missing the Point of the ‘Mary Bowser’ Story
- Stonehenge Has Attracted Summer Solstice Visitors for Centuries, But Some Historians Worry About Its Future
- Here’s Why Stonehenge Is Connected to the Summer Solstice
- Some People Think Stonewall Was Triggered by Judy Garland’s Funeral. Here’s Why Many Experts Disagree
- Detaining Migrant Children at U.S. Military Bases Has Been Done Before
- I Produced the Documentary Before Stonewall. Here’s What It’s Been Like to Revisit It Three Decades Later
- Was Stonewall a Riot, an Uprising or a Rebellion? Here’s How the Description Has Changed—And Why It Matters
- This Medal of Honor Recipient Single-Handedly Cleared a House of Iraqi Insurgents. TIME Was There
- ‘The Beginning of a Conversation’: What It Was Like to Be an LGBTQ Activist Before Stonewall
- Even the Internet Hasn’t Really Changed How Being Famous Works. Here’s Why
- The Radical Woman Whose 19th Century Ideas Still Undergird the LGBTQ-Rights Movement
- The Most Important Presidential Debates in American History, According to Historians
- What the 2020 Democrats Can Learn From One of the Most Crowded Primary Fields in History
- Sex Workers Are an Important Part of the Stonewall Story, But Their Role Has Been Forgotten
- These Rarely Seen Photos of Early Pride Parades Capture a Shifting Movement
- With Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz Once Again Under Threat, These Are the Lessons of the 1980s Tanker War
- Stonewall-Era Activists and Queer Millennials Discuss the State of the LGBTQ Community, Then and Now
- 15 Unsung Moments From American History That Historians Say You Should Know About
- The History Behind the Royal Family’s Connection to Wimbledon
- What We Can Learn Today From a 1944 Meeting That Reshaped the Entire Global Economy
- Nikita Khrushchev’s Son Watched his Father Lose the Space Race. 50 Years After the Moon Landing, He Holds No Grudge
- A Brief History of the S’more, America’s Favorite Campfire Snack
- ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration
- The Maryland 400 Lost a Battle But Helped Win a War. On the 4th of July, We Should Remember Their Sacrifice
- President Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops ‘Took Over the Airports’ in His Fourth of July Speech
- Fights Over ‘Authentic’ Chinese Food Have a Long and Complicated History. Now They’re Tearing the Culinary World Apart
- Meet Poppy Northcutt, the Woman Who Helped Bring the Apollo 11 Astronauts Home Safely
- How Ross Perot Changed Political Campaigns
- If You’re Shocked by Reports on Children at the Border, You Haven’t Paid Attention to American History
- Apollo 11 Had 3 Men Aboard, But Only 2 Walked on the Moon. Here’s What it Was Like to Be the Third
- A NASA Intern Bought Apollo 11 Videotapes for $218. Now They’re Going to Auction for Millions
- Lots of People Have Theories About Neil Armstrong’s ‘One Small Step for Man’ Quote. Here’s What We Really Know
- They Were at Mission Control During Apollo 11. 50 Years Later, the Memory Still Moves Them to Tears
- Pamplona’s Bull Runs Have a Controversial Past. Do They Still Have a Future?
- The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate
- How the Apollo Program Changed Our Understanding of What the Moon Even Is
- The Story Behind TIME’s 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos
- Here’s Every Single Mission to the Moon in One Chart
- How Historians Are Reckoning With the Former Nazi Who Launched America’s Space Program
- A Century Before Trump’s ICE Raids, the U.S. Government Rounded Up Thousands of Immigrants. Here’s What Happened
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were Supposed to Nap After Landing on the Moon, But They Couldn’t Wait to Walk
- A Group of German Leaders Tried to Kill Hitler in 1944. Here’s Why They Failed
- Corruption, Cover-Ups and the Shocking Presidential History to Remember as Robert Mueller Testifies
- 200 Years Before the ‘Send Her Back’ Chants, This U.S.-Backed Effort Tried to Send Free Black Americans ‘Back’
- Thousands Have ‘Signed Up’ to ‘Storm Loch Ness’ and Find ‘That Big Boy.’ Here’s the History Behind the Mythical Sea Monster
- The Strait of Hormuz Is at the Center of Iran Tensions Again. Here’s How the Narrow Waterway Gained Wide Importance
- How Controversy Over the Census and Immigration Caused a Crisis 100 Years Ago
- How NASA’s Chris Kraft Conducted the Symphony That Put Men on the Moon
- When ‘the Boss’ Was My Boss: What I Learned Working for Legendary Prosecutor Robert M. Morgenthau
- Is Capitalism or Communism Better for Women? How the Kitchen Debate Gave a New Meaning to the Cold War ‘Home Front’
- ‘This Might Be My Last Night’: What Chaplains Saw in World War II
- The True Story Behind Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
- The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Volunteered to Enter Auschwitz and Try to Tell the World About It
- Donald Trump and Boris Johnson Rode the Same Wave Into Power. History Suggests the Parallels Won’t Stop There
- Why Did the Manson Family Kill Sharon Tate? Here’s the Story Charles Manson Told the Last Man Who Interviewed Him
- Ensuring the Chicago Race Riot Is Not Forgotten, With Inspiration from Germany’s Holocaust Memorials
- ‘It Just Goes On and On’: How the Race Riots of 1919’s ‘Red Summer’ Helped Shape a Century of American History
- Long Before Trump’s Tweets, Baltimore Had Become a ‘Target.’ Here’s How Segregation Helped Create Its Problems
- Why Joe Biden’s First Campaign for President Collapsed After Just 3 Months
- ‘They Cleaned Up Pretty Well.’ What Archeologists Found at the Farm Where Woodstock Was Held
- The True Story Behind Netflix’s The Red Sea Diving Resort