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- The Civil War Wasn’t Just About the Union and the Confederacy. Native Americans Played a Role Too
- Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Victory Is a Big Deal for Socialism in America. Here’s What to Know About the History of the Idea
- George Washington Made History by Deciding to Leave the Presidency. But That Didn’t Mean He Left Politics
- How Reno Became ‘the Divorce Capital of the World’—And Why That Reputation Faded
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- The Historical Origins of Today’s Campaign Proposals for ‘Free College’
- Why Suburban American Homeowners Were Accused of Being a ‘Profit-Making Cartel’ in the 1970s
- For Decades, an Annual Competition Has Challenged Students to Deliver Speeches Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. Here’s Why It’s Still Going Strong
- Behind the Making of TIME’s Martin Luther King Jr. Cover
- ‘We Have to Redeem the Soul of America.’ John Lewis on What’s Changed and What Hasn’t Since the March on Washington
- How Martin Luther King Jr. and Motown Saved the Sound of the Civil Rights Movement
- American Women Won the Right to Vote After the Suffrage Movement Became More Diverse. That’s No Coincidence
- The Enduring Mystery of Malcolm X’s Assassination
- President Trump Can Expect a Warm Welcome on His India Trip. Other U.S. Leaders Saw Chillier Relations
- ‘You Never Find Quiet Except Under a Tyranny.’ Congress Has Always Been Partisan and That’s a Good Thing.
- The Famous Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo Captured an Authentic Moment—But Gave Many Americans a False Impression
- President Trump’s Take on Parasite Echoes an Old Debate Over the Role of Non-American Films at the Oscars
- These Overlooked Black Women Shaped Malcolm X’s Life
- Hidden Figures Hero Katherine Johnson Reminded Us That Space Was Never Safe From America’s Worst Impulses
- Land Deed for Pioneering School Sheds Light on an Early American Anti-Slavery Effort
- Joyce Ladner Used Her Stories to Raise Awareness of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, She’s Telling Them in a New Way
- 7 Female Trekkers Who Helped Reclaim Nature, One Step at a Time
- ‘I Was Not Going to Stand.’ Rosa Parks Predecessors Recall Their History-Making Acts of Resistance
- Beyond The Invisible Man: A Brief History of Invisibility on Screen
- John Adams Defended Enemy Soldiers in Court. 250 Years After the Boston Massacre, Here’s How That Case Is Still Shaping Legal History
- The Democratic Party Destroyed Its Own Chances in 1972. Today’s Democrats Could Learn From That Year’s Mistakes
- 9 Women From American History You Should Know, According to Historians
- Women With Access to Higher Education Changed America—But Now They’re Bearing the Brunt of the Student Debt Crisis
- The World Changed Its Approach to Health After the 1918 Flu. Will It After The COVID-19 Outbreak?
- What History’s Economy-Disrupting Outbreaks Can Teach Us About Coronavirus Panic
- The Grand Princess Has Docked in California. Here’s What to Know About the History of Quarantine on Ships
- How Electric Elevators Transformed the Modern City
- The Centuries-Old Debate Behind the Fight Over Sanctuary Cities
- Coronavirus Is Putting the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile to the Test. Here’s the Surprising Story Behind the Stash
- What Makes Viruses Like COVID-19 Such a Risk for Human Beings? The Answer Goes Back Thousands of Years
- I’m a Historian of Epidemics and Quarantine. Now I’m Living That History on Lockdown in Italy
- At Census Time, Asian Americans Again Confront the Question of Who ‘Counts’ as Asian. Here’s How the Answer Got So Complicated
- The Poignant Story of Albert Einstein’s ‘Magnificent’ 70th Birthday Party
- How Hawaii’s Japanese Population Was Spared Internment During World War II
- The Census Is More Than Just a Form. It’s a Window Into the History of American Families
- How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV
- Archaeologists Have Spent More Than a Century Hunting for Answers About Biblical Armageddon. Finding Them Is Complicated
- The First Spacewalk Could Have Ended in Tragedy for Alexei Leonov. Here’s What Went Wrong
- Trump’s ‘Chinese’ Virus Is Part of a Long History of Blaming Other Countries for Disease
- What Can History Teach Today’s Leaders? Doris Kearns Goodwin Shares Presidential Lessons for the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Have the Olympics Ever Been Canceled? Here’s the History
- The Story Behind Jackie Robinson’s Moving Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- The Stories That Skewed American Popular Memory of the Civil War
- I Feared My Enslaved Ancestors Had Been Dishonored in Death—But the African Burial Ground in New York City Tells a Different Story
- This Couple Was Planning Their Wedding in Italy. Now They’re Fighting Coronavirus on the Frontline—Together
- The U.S. Government Has Mobilized Private Companies to Face Crises Before. Here’s What to Know
- The Coronavirus Stimulus Includes Direct Payments to Taxpayers. Here’s What We Can Learn From Richard Nixon’s Failed Plan to Send Checks to Americans
- ‘You Must Wash Properly.’ Newspaper Ads From the 1918 Flu Pandemic Show Some Things Never Change
- Crosswords Have Always Been a Solace in Times of Trouble. Here’s How the 20th Century’s Toughest Moments Shaped the Puzzle’s History
- Professors Are Crowdsourcing a #CoronavirusSyllabus. Here’s the History They Think Should Be Used to Teach This Moment
- Christianity Offers No Answers About the Coronavirus. It’s Not Supposed To
- How U.S. Presidents Have Tried to Use Legal Action to Stop People From Insulting Them
- Why Are There 360 Degrees in a Circle? Here’s the History
- To Fight COVID-19, Ford Is Planning to Manufacture Ventilators. This Isn’t the First Time the Automaker Has Made Medical Devices
- ‘It Is Pretty Bad Down Here at Present.’ What We Can Learn From a Letter Written Just After the Height of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
- America’s Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology
- States Can’t Fight Coronavirus on Their Own—And the Founding Fathers Knew It
- How the Coronavirus Death Toll Compares to Other Deadly Events From American History
- The Surprisingly Long History of the Ventilator, the Machine You Never Want to Need
- How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History
- How the Civil War Changed the Way Americans Thought About Economic Inequality
- Coronavirus Is Upending Traditions for Passover and Easter—But Traditions Have Adapted for Past Pandemics, Too
- Boris Johnson Isn’t the First British Leader to Fall Ill While in Office. Here’s What Happened When His Predecessors Took Time Off
- NASA Saw Apollo 13 as a Fiasco. 50 Years Later, Astronaut Jim Lovell Has Made Peace With the ‘Successful Failure’
- The Spanish ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ Is Being Used to Honor Hispanic Workers Fighting COVID-19. Here’s the History Behind the Lyrics
- How the ‘Father of Epidemiology’ Made the Connection Between Disease and Geography
- War Has Been the Governing Metaphor for Decades of American Life. This Pandemic Exposes Its Weaknesses
- History Shows That When Prejudice Overrides Science, Public Health Is at Risk
- How Lincoln Managed America’s Governors to Become a Great National Leader
- Filling Out a Census Has Always Been a Political Act
- Christian Groups That Resist Public-Health Guidelines Are Forgetting a Key Part of the Religion’s History
- The Holocaust Was an Attempt to Erase Millions of People. Today, the World Must Honor the Evidence That They Existed
- Long-Forgotten Cables Reveal What TIME’s Correspondent Saw at the Liberation of Dachau
- How People Across the U.S. Celebrated the First Earth Day
- Why We Should All Be Keeping Coronavirus Journals
- They Were There as the Modern Environmental Movement Began. As Earth Day Turns 50, They Say the Planet’s Problems Have Gotten Worse
- As Coronavirus Magnifies America’s Housing Crisis, FDR’s New Deal Could Offer a Roadmap Forward
- Inside the Mission to Perform Bone-Marrow Transplants on Survivors of the Chernobyl Disaster
- If the Great Depression Is Any Indication, Things Won’t Just Go Back to ‘Normal’ After the Coronavirus Pandemic Ends
- First the Women Who Ran This U.K. Military Hospital Faced World War I. Then Came the 1918 Flu Pandemic
- Loneliness Is a Modern Invention. Understanding That History Can Help Us Get Through This Pandemic
- The First Secret Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
- How World War II Prompted a Teenage Future Queen Elizabeth to Give Her First Address to the Nation
- Loosening Public-Health Restrictions Too Early Can Cost Lives. Just Look What Happened During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
- How Art Movements Tried to Make Sense of the World in the Wake of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
- What the History of Polio Can Teach Us About COVID-19
- Who Discovered Soap? What to Know About the Origins of the Life-Saving Substance
- Irish Send Money to Native American Community Hit By COVID-19, Returning Historic Favor
- The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Abraham Lincoln Abolish Slavery
- 4 Movies That Got World War II Right, According to a Historian
- World War II in Europe Ended 75 Years Ago—But the World Is Still Fighting Over Who Gets to Say What Happened
- Irish Donors Are Helping a Native American Tribe Face the Coronavirus Crisis. Here’s the Historical Reason Why
- Watch the Rousing Trailer for the Documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble
- Video Chat Is Helping Us Stay Connected in Lockdown. But the Tech Was Once a ‘Spectacular Flop’
- Violence Against Asian Americans Is on the Rise—But It’s Part of a Long History