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History: Part 52
- ‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives. Here’s How the Definition Split—And Why That Still Matters
- The Ford Administration Rolled Out a Vaccine Program Right Before the 1976 Election. It Backfired—And Not Just Politically
- Women’s Equality Day Is a Reminder That the Fight for Women’s Rights Didn’t End With the 19th Amendment
- How Data Visualization During Public Health Crises Has Saved Lives for Centuries
- Ahead of the ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’ March, Revisit the Original March on Washington With These Books, Films and More
- What Martin Luther King Jr. Said at the March on Washington About Police Brutality
- Video Games May Be Key to Keeping World War II Memory Alive. Here Are 5 WWII Games Worth Playing, According to a Historian
- The Milwaukee Bucks Led the Way as Athletes Took a Stand Over Jacob Blake. Players Decades Ago Helped Win Them the Power to Speak Up
- Hitler’s Quest for Power Was Nearly Derailed Multiple Times. But the System Enabled His Rise
- The Tragic Mid-Air Plane Crash That Changed the American Aviation Industry Forever
- Nazi-Occupied Norway Offers a Glimpse of What Hitler Wanted for the Entire World
- Why Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Love Affair with the Ottoman Empire Should Worry The World
- There’s No Miss America Pageant This Year. The Contest’s History Suggests It Could Return Stronger Than Ever—Or Not
- ‘This Country Has Been Bathed in Violence.’ Sen. Chris Murphy on the Torturous Cycle of Gun Crime in America
- Who Was the Real ‘Father of Labor Day’? The Answer Is Complicated
- John Adams Lost His Re-Election. How He Responded Set a Precedent That’s Been Followed for More Than 200 Years
- Hand Sanitizer, Masks and Screenshots From Zoom: See What Museums Are Already Collecting to Tell the Story of COVID-19
- Immigrants Have Always Played a Key Role in the U.S. Political Process. The Latest Ruling on Trump’s Census Plan Is Part of That History
- Naomi Osaka’s U.S. Open Masks Showcase One of an Athlete’s Most Powerful Tools for Protest
- California Plans to Make Ethnic Studies a Requirement for Public-School Students. Here’s the History Behind the Idea
- 400 Years After the Mayflower Set Sail, a New Exhibit Acknowledges the U.K.’s Impact on Native American Communities
- Trump’s Threat to Pull Funding From Schools Over How They Teach Slavery Is Part of a Long History of Politicizing American History Class
- America Denied Refugees After the End of World War II—Just As We Are Today
- Echoing Decades of Fighting Over U.S. History Classrooms, President Trump Announces a Push for ‘Patriotic Education’
- Many Young Americans Don’t Know Key Facts About the Holocaust. Now Is the Time to Fix the Way We Teach This History in the U.S.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy Doesn’t Start With the Supreme Court. Here’s How She Made News Decades Earlier
- ‘The Only Person I Have Loved.’ Inside Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s History-Shaping Marriage of Equals
- America’s Founders Recognized the Need for Public Education. Democracy Requires Maintaining That Commitment
- It’s Tempting to Want to Forget the Past—But Dangerous. My Own Family’s History With the Nazi Party Is No Exception
- Nearly Half of New York City’s Public-School Students Stayed Home to Protest Segregation in a 1964 Boycott. That Fight Is Still Unfinished
- An Illuminati Conspiracy Theory Captured American Imaginations in the Nation’s Earliest Days—And Offers a Lesson for Now
- The First Black Miss World Looks Back on Her Tumultuous Win 50 Years Later
- ‘Track the Problem.’ Ibram X. Kendi on Using Data to Dismantle Structural Racism
- Keeping It Eel: How One Historian Is Using Twitter and Medieval Factoids to Help Endangered Animals
- Voting by Mail Dates Back to America’s Earliest Years. Here’s How It’s Changed Over the Years
- Climate Change Was on the Ballot With Jimmy Carter in 1980—Though No One Knew It at the Time
- President Trump Has Attacked Critical Race Theory. Here’s What to Know About the Intellectual Movement
- Beyond Gloria Steinem: What to Know About the Women of Color Who Were Instrumental to the Women’s Liberation Movement
- The Proud Boys Are Part of America’s Long History of Vigilante Violence. Here’s What to Know About the Group’s Origins
- Inside the Stories of the Most Daring Women Spies of World War II
- History Shows America Benefits From Transparency About the President’s Health. Too Bad That’s So Rare
- It’s Been 25 Years Since We Found the First Exoplanet. Now We Know of Thousands—and Some Could Harbor Life
- How John Brown Showed America That It’s Not Enough to Be on the Right Side of History
- The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity
- How Abraham Lincoln Confronted—and Helped Spread—Political Misinformation
- How Does a Pandemic End? Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu
- Coal Miners Helped Shape America’s Labor Landscape. Their Industry Is Fading, But That History Is Worth Remembering
- A Plot Against an Embattled Governor? Militias Disrupting Elections? It Happened in the 1850s—And Holds a Lesson for Today
- What We Get Wrong About Medieval Libraries
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 Is a Riveting Movie. But the True Story Is Even More Dramatic
- Inside JFK’s Decisionmaking During the Cuban Missile Crisis
- In Previously Unseen Interview, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shares How Legal Pioneer Pauli Murray Shaped Her Work on Sex Discrimination
- This Isn’t the First Time America Has Voted During a Pandemic. Here’s How the 1918 Flu Affected That Year’s Election
- A Viral Tweet Compared Joe Biden to Mister Rogers. This Isn’t the First Time the Children’s TV Icon Has Gotten Caught up in Politics
- A 1973 Hostage Crisis Changed Police Methods—And a Film About It Just Won a Prize From the Library of Congress and Ken Burns
- We All Think History Will Be on Our Side. Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Rely on That Assumption
- Women Tend to Vote for Democratic Presidential Candidates More Than Men Do. Here’s How That Gender Gap First Came to Be
- This Year’s World Series Isn’t the First Played During a Pandemic. Here’s What Happened to Baseball in 1918
- Did America Have a ‘Good Relationship’ with Hitler? What Joe Biden Got Right and Wrong About That History During the Debate
- Not Every U.S. Presidential Race Has Been Decided on Election Day. Here’s What to Know About America’s History of Contested Elections
- Much of What We Thought About Neanderthals Was Wrong. Here’s Why That Matters
- The Nigerian Government Has Pledged to #EndSARS and Reform the Police. This Isn’t the First Time They’ve Made That Promise
- It’s Hard to Enforce Pandemic Health Rules on Halloween. Just Look at What Happened in 1918
- From Encyclopedias to Telephone Books, How Alphabetization Took Over the Modern World
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Been Tough on Shopping Malls. History Suggests We Should Be Wary of What Might Replace Them
- ‘The Relationship Has Always Been Tense.’ Philadelphia’s Police Department Has a Troubling History With the City’s Black Community
- The U.S. Separated Families Decades Ago, Too. With 545 Migrant Children Missing Their Parents, That Moment Holds a Key Lesson
- Beyond Court Packing: The Supreme Court Has Always Been Political
- Ted Olson Argued Bush v. Gore. Before Another Possibly Contested Election, Here Are 7 of His Winning Tactics
- Why Swing States Are a Thing
- ‘I Vote Because’: Americans Are Sharing Stories of How Their Ancestors Overcame Discrimination in Order to Vote
- The 2020 Election Set a Record for Voter Turnout. But Why Is It Normal for So Many Americans to Sit Out Elections?
- The Historic Barriers Kamala Harris Overcame to Become the First Female, First Black and First Asian American Vice President-Elect
- Historian: Today’s Authoritarian Leaders Aren’t Fascists—But They Are Part of the Same Story
- Stacey Abrams and Other Georgia Organizers Are Part of a Long—But Often Overlooked—Tradition of Black Women Working for the Vote
- We Want to Hear Stories of Heroism—But Those Aren’t the War Stories Veterans Want to Tell
- Alexis de Tocqueville Warned Americans About How Presidential Elections Could Go Wrong
- What We Can Learn About Nazi Psychology From the Wives of Hitler’s Top Officials
- Ammonite Tells a Partly True Story of Two Women Pursuing Love and Science. Here’s What’s Fact and What’s Fiction
- The True Story Behind The Crown‘s Prince Charles, Princess Diana and Camilla Parker Bowles Love Triangle
- The Crown Doesn’t Fully Explain Why Princess Diana Was So Popular. Here’s How She Became a Global Celebrity
- SpaceX’s Crewed Launch Continues What NASA’s Gemini Astronauts Started
- The Idea of the ‘Dark Ages’ Is a Myth. Here’s Why Medieval Scientific Progress Still Matters
- A New Generation of Volunteers Are Rescuing Historic Black Cemeteries—And Black History
- The Story of the Library of Alexandria Is Mostly a Legend, But the Lesson of Its Burning Is Still Crucial Today
- The 10 Best Movies Based on a True Story
- 400 Years After the ‘First Thanksgiving,’ the Tribe That Fed the Pilgrims Continues to Fight for Its Land Amid Another Epidemic
- On World AIDS Day, Those Who Fought the 1980s Epidemic Find Striking Differences and Tragic Parallels in COVID-19
- These Latinas Were Pioneers for Workers’ Rights in the U.S. Here Are 2 You Should Have Learned About in School
- The History Behind TIME’s Use of a Red ‘X’ on Its Cover
- How the Mayflower Story Fits Into Native American History
- How History Classes on the Women’s Suffrage Movement Leave Out the Work of Black Voting Rights Activists
- A City Tried to Move a Monument. The Fight That Ensued Shows the Power of History
- The History Behind TIME Choosing President-Elects as Person of the Year
- 2020: Watch The Year in Review
- Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School
- How America Keeps Adapting the Story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to Match the Story We Need to Tell
- Ma Rainey Is Best Known as a Pioneer of the Blues. But She Broke More Than Musical Barriers
- Lessons From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on How to Celebrate the Holidays Amid COVID-19
- You’ve Probably Heard of the Red Scare, but the Lesser-Known, Anti-Gay ‘Lavender Scare’ Is Rarely Taught in Schools