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History: Part 51
- How Florence Nightingale Paved the Way for the Heroic Work of Nurses Today
- The Coronavirus Baking Boom Has Made It Hard to Find Flour. Here’s How Americans Coped With ‘Wheatless Wednesdays’ in WWI
- 50 Years After the Jackson State Killings, America’s Crisis of Racial Injustice Continues—and Shows the Danger of Forgetting
- The Great Is Only ‘Occasionally’ True. But These Aspects of Hulu’s Catherine the Great Series Are Based in History
- A Vaccine Against COVID-19 Would Be the Latest Success in a Long Scientific History
- Emergency Medical Workers Are Integral to the Fight Against Coronavirus. Just a Few Decades Ago, America’s EMS System Didn’t Even Exist
- Conspiracy Theories, Class Tension, Political Intrigue: Lessons From France’s Mishandling of a 19th Century Cholera Outbreak
- How the Rise of the Working Wife Changed British Society
- When the Economy Collapses, Talk Is Cheap—Just Look What Led Up to the Great Depression
- How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers Helped Reshape the American Military
- In 1968, These Activists Coined the Term ‘Asian American’—And Helped Shape Decades of Advocacy
- The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day
- Understanding the Origins of American Gun Culture Can Help Reframe Today’s Gun Debate
- Lessons That Can Be Learned From Operation ‘Denver,’ the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign
- ‘Not Priests, Nor Crosses, Nor Bells.’ The Tragic History of How Pandemics Have Disrupted Mourning
- ‘The Saddest, Bitterest Thing of All.’ From the Great Depression to Today, a Long History of Food Destruction in the Face of Hunger
- George Floyd’s Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis
- Many Holocaust Survivors Are Struggling Amid the Pandemic. Here’s How Virtual Gatherings Are Helping
- Trump Declared Himself the ‘President of Law and Order.’ Here’s What People Get Wrong About the Origins of That Idea
- The Search for the Truth About the Nazi Plot to Assassinate FDR
- ‘Persevere Through the Highs and Lows.’ What We Can Still Learn From the Suffragists Who Fought for the Right to Vote During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
- 10 Experts on Where the George Floyd Protests Fit Into American History
- ‘A War of Words.’ Why Describing the George Floyd Protests as ‘Riots’ Is So Loaded
- Ancient Rome Thrived When the Empire Welcomed Immigrants. We Should Remember What Happened When That Changed
- Confederate Statues Are Being Removed Amid Protests Over George Floyd’s Death. Here’s What to Know
- A Plan to Take the George Floyd Case to the U.N. Highlights a Decades-Old Tension Between Civil Rights and Human Rights
- History Shows the Problem With Focusing on Whether a Protest Is Nonviolent
- How American Power Dynamics Have Shaped Perceptions of Looting, From the Boston Tea Party to Today
- As Da 5 Bloods Hits Netflix, Black Vietnam Veterans Recall the Real Injustices They Faced During and After the War
- People Really Do Get Their Civil Rights History From Movies Like The Help. The Problem With That Is Clear
- The Risky Journey That Saved One of China’s Greatest Literary Treasures
- After World War II, Most ‘Ordinary Nazis’ Returned to Lives of Obscurity. The World Must Recover Their Stories Before It’s Too Late
- Activists Are Pushing to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday. Here’s the History Behind Their Fight
- The Black New Yorker Who Led the Charge Against Police Violence in the 1830s
- As Trump Comes to Tulsa, Teachers Grapple With How to Talk to Students About the City’s 1921 Race Massacre
- The Racist History of Voter Registration
- How the Fight Against Police Brutality Helped Ignite the LGBTQ-Rights Movement
- Segregation Has Gotten Worse, Not Better, and It’s Fueling the Wealth Gap Between Black and White Americans
- ‘We’re Still Not Free.’ A Descendant of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre on the Pain of Trump’s Juneteenth Weekend Rally
- Britain Celebrates ‘Windrush Day’ Amid Broader Reckoning on Race
- As Confederate Statues Come Down, It’s Worth Remembering That the Civil War Wasn’t the Only American Conflict Involving Slavery
- How 1970s U.S. Immigration Policy Put Mexican Migrants at the Center of a System of Mass Expulsion
- 21 Lessons From America’s Worst Moments
- What’s Changed—and What Hasn’t—in 50 Years of Pride Parades
- The Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Long, Complicated History
- The Surprisingly Deep—and Often Troubling—History of ‘Social Distancing’
- The Supreme Court’s June Medical Decision Is Part of a Decades-Long Shift in the Fight Over Abortion—And Offers a Clue About What’s Next
- Why We Owe LGBTQ+ Victories to an Early Trans Activist
- The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans
- How Free Black People Helped Fight America’s First Epidemic and Transformed the Nation’s Capital
- The Pandemic Has Raised Fears About Loneliness. History Suggests We Should Worry About the Opposite, Too
- The Long History of Drinking Games—And How to Win Them
- 150 Years Ago, the Senate Chose Not to Equalize Access to U.S. Citizenship. The Consequences Were Dire
- Facing America’s History of Racism Requires Facing the Origins of ‘Race’ as a Concept
- The Fight Over Monuments of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Holds a Lesson About Whiteness in America
- A History of the Newly Resurgent ‘Black National Anthem’
- The Need to Teach the History Behind Current Events Has Rarely Been Clearer. Here’s How Some Teachers Are Getting Ready
- The Deep History—and Troubling Impact—of Sports Teams Using Native American Mascots
- Washington’s NFL Team Could Be Renamed the ‘Red Tails.’ Real Tuskegee Airmen Have Mixed Feelings About That
- Mississippi Is Replacing Its State Flag, But a Confederate Emblem Still Flies Over Georgia
- What to Know About the Lady of the Lake and the Arthurian Legends Behind Netflix’s Cursed
- Why John Lewis Kept Telling the Story of Civil Rights, Even Though It Hurt
- ‘It’s a Picture of Someone Who Knows Who He Is.’ The Story Behind TIME’s Commemorative John Lewis Cover
- John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Was Never Limited to Just the United States
- Why Planned Parenthood Is Removing Founder Margaret Sanger’s Name From a New York City Clinic
- The Uncertain Future of Places That Preserve America’s Past
- Remembering the Life’s Work and Legacy of Civil Rights Pioneer C.T. Vivian
- ‘He Was Like a Pit Bull’: Bob Moses on John Lewis’ Fighting Spirit
- ‘We Were the Sum Total of Our Work.’ Activists Dorie and Joyce Ladner Recall What It Was Like to Organize With John Lewis in the 1960s
- How 20th Century Camera Film Captured a Snapshot of American Bias
- ‘Are We Not American Soldiers?’ When the U.S. Military Treated German POWs Better Than Black Troops
- Confederate Monuments and Other Disputed Memorials Have Come Down in Cities Across America. What Should Take Their Place?
- Years Before Rosa Parks, Sarah Keys Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus. Now She’s Being Honored in the City Where She Was Arrested
- She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories
- To Honor the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 Years on, We Must Lay Down Our Nuclear Weapons
- A 1973 Bank Robbery Gave the World ‘Stockholm Syndrome’—But There’s More to the Story Than That
- How Understanding the History of Hurricanes Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Big One
- How a New Generation Is Carrying on the Legacy of Atomic Bomb Survivors
- ‘Hiroshima’ Has Become Shorthand for the Atomic Bombings. Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Overlook Nagasaki
- COVID-19 Isn’t the First Pandemic to Affect Minority Populations Differently. Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu
- How Women Used Their Domestic Power to Influence the American Revolution
- The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Americans. The White House Never Said a Word About It
- An Attempted Coup Tried to Stop Japan’s Surrender in World War II. Here’s How It Failed
- Kamala Harris Is the Third Woman to Run as a Vice Presidential Candidate for a Major U.S. Party. Here’s What to Know About the First
- The History of Ponzi Schemes Goes Deeper Than the Man Who Gave Them His Name
- What the Freemasons Taught the World About the Power of Secrecy
- ‘It’s a Struggle They Will Wage Alone.’ How Black Women Won the Right to Vote
- I’m Ida B. Wells’s Great-Granddaughter, and I’m Still Fighting Her Fight for the Vote
- Mississippi Didn’t Ratify the 19th Amendment Until 1984. Here’s Why Some States Waited Decades
- 5 Myths About the 19th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage, Debunked
- How a Historic Heart Transplant Exposed a Troubling Truth About Race and Health in America
- The Politics of Postal Reform Have Always Been Part of USPS History
- We Can’t Tell Kamala Harris’ Story Without the British Empire. We Can’t Tell America’s Without It Either
- Tyree Boyd-Pates In Conversation With Geoffrey Canada: ‘America’s Future Is Predicated on Knowing the Full History’
- Jimmy Carter Tried to Make It Easier to Vote in 1977. The Right Stopped Him With the Same Arguments It’s Using Today
- COVID-19 Is Prompting Wealthy People to Move Out of Cities. The Plague Had the Same Effect Hundreds of Years Ago
- Home Care Workers Are Now Called Essential. But the History of the Profession Shows That the U.S. Has Never Treated Them as Such
- How a Political Dispute Over the Early American Postal System Could Have Jeopardized the Whole U.S. Constitution
- Parents Are Facing Tough Choices About School in the COVID-19 Era. Here’s How People Made the Same Decisions When It Came to Polio
- What Stereotypes About Viking Masculinity Get Wrong