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History: Part 53
- How 2020 Will Go Down in the History Books, According to Historians
- How a Refugee Revisited His Birth Village During the Pandemic—After 73 Years Away
- How Soviet Russia Banished Their Version of Santa Claus, Then Brought Him Back to Spread Communist Cheer
- How One Man Survived a Plane Crash and 5 Days in the Snowy Canadian Wilderness—and Went On to Help Shape the Modern Ski Industry
- Here’s What History Can Tell Us About the Magi
- What Long Flu Sufferers of the 1918-1919 Pandemic Can Tell Us About Long COVID Today
- The Irreplaceable Grace Of an Ordinary Morning
- ‘Another Milestone in the Long, Long Road.’ Rev. Raphael Warnock’s Georgia Senate Victory Made History in Multiple Ways
- How America’s ‘First Female Cryptanalyst’ Cracked the Code of Nazi Spies in World War II—and Never Lived to See the Credit
- What Impeachment Won’t Change: How the GOP Became the Party of Trump Over Several Decades
- How One Atlanta Church Impacted Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and Incoming Sen. Raphael Warnock
- ‘Alarmingly Similar.’ What the Chaos Around Lincoln’s First Inauguration Can Tell Us About Today, According to Historians
- Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mother, Made Her Own Contributions to Civil Rights
- Our Fragile Optimism
- The FBI’s Surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Relentless. But Its Findings Paint a Fuller Picture for Historians
- The U.S. Capitol Attacked Reminded Me of the 1979 US Embassy Seizure and What Happens When Extremism Wins
- As Trump Plans to Skip Biden’s Swearing In, Here Are 3 Other U.S. Presidents Who Dodged Their Successors’ Inauguration
- ‘I Never Learned Anything by Talking.’ Watch Larry King on the Art of the Interview and a Shifting Media Landscape
- ‘Hate Never Disappears. It Just Takes a Break for a While.’ Why the U.S. Capitol Attack Makes Holocaust Remembrance Day More Important Than Ever
- How One Writer Uncovered the Lost Histories of 999 Women and Girls Who Were Sent to Auschwitz
- Before She Refused to Give Up Her Seat, Rosa Parks Had a Long History as a Voting Rights Activist
- What the QAnon of the 6th Century Teaches Us About Conspiracies
- Want Unity For Real? Then America Needs to Get Back to Facts
- How a Foulmouthed Bigot Named Archie Bunker Charmed—and Changed—America
- Politicians Quote Abraham Lincoln a Lot. Historians Say They Don’t Always Do His Words Justice
- How One Small Maryland Town Became the Marriage Capital of the East Coast in the Early 20th Century
- How The Black Panther Party Inspired a New Generation of Activists
- Remembering Chick Corea, An Endlessly Inquisitive Jazz Pioneer
- Minari and the Real Korean-American Immigrants Who Have Farmed U.S. Soil for More Than a Century
- To Understand America, You Need to Understand the Black Church
- With Free Medical Clinics and Patient Advocacy, the Black Panthers Created a Legacy in Community Health That Still Exists Amid COVID-19
- People Longing for Movie Theaters During the 1918 Flu Pandemic Feels Very Familiar in 2021
- The Little-Known History Behind the People of Color Who Joined the Royal Family Long Before Meghan
- 12 Questions for Kevin Young, Poet and the New Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- The Historical Significance of Deb Haaland Becoming the First Native American Cabinet Secretary
- What My Mobster Grandfather Understood About American Capitalism
- Be Bold, Be Proud, Speak Up: Raising Asian American Daughters Now
- How a Shared Goal to Dismantle White Supremacy Is Fueling Black-Asian Solidarity
- Historians Decode the Religious Symbolism and Queer Iconography of Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Video
- A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms
- How a 1946 Case of Police Brutality Against a Black WWII Veteran Shaped the Fight for Civil Rights
- The Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Can’t Be ‘Solved’ Without Acknowledging Its Origins
- From ‘Scientist’ to ‘Spam,’ the Surprisingly Playful Origins of English Words
- The U.S. Has Had ‘Vaccine Passports’ Before—And They Worked
- How a Long History of Intertwined Racism and Misogyny Leaves Asian Women in America Vulnerable to Violence
- Why It Took Decades for LGBTQ Stories to Be Included in Holocaust History
- Why the Stories of Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis Remained Hidden for So Long
- The Holocaust Began Not With Concentration Camps, But With Hateful Rhetoric. That Part of the Story Cannot Be Forgotten
- Prince Philip Was Queen Elizabeth’s ‘Strength and Stay.’ Their Marriage Was Also Incredibly Complex
- How Prince Philip Became Queen Elizabeth’s Unlikely Husband
- How DMX’s It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot Changed the Course of Hip-Hop Forever
- What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today
- How a Miniature Emancipation Proclamation Helped Recruit Black Soldiers During the Civil War
- My Ancestors Were Enslaved—But Their Freedom Came at a Price for Others
- Reconsidering Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy Is All Well and Good—But You Can’t Argue With Results
- Where Prince Philip’s Funeral Fits Into Royal History
- What the Rise and Fall of the Cinderella Fairy Tale Means for Real Women Today
- History’s Lesson for Activists Who Want to Defund the Police
- America’s Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year—And Reshaped the Country’s Economy
- The ‘America First Caucus’ Is Backtracking, But Its Mistaken Ideas About ‘Anglo-Saxon’ History Still Have Scholars Concerned
- The Troop Withdrawal Won’t Be the End of the U.S. Military Presence in Afghanistan. History Suggests There’s a Better Way Forward
- The Split in How Americans Think About Our Collective Past Is Real—But There’s a Way Out of the ‘History Wars’
- 11 Moments From Asian American History That You Should Know
- How Liberal White America Turned Its Back on James Baldwin in the 1960s
- The Empire State Building Opened During the Great Depression. Its Survival Story Holds a Lesson for Today
- The Overlooked History of Angel Island, Where the U.S. Enforced Rules Designed to Keep Asian Immigrants Out
- Why the First Black Woman to Be a History Professor in the U.K. Sees Her New Book African Europeans as a ‘Call to Arms’
- Finding the Future Queen Elizabeth in the Pages of Her Friend’s Wartime Diary
- ‘She Never Talked About the War.’ Uncovering the Daring Stories of Women Who Resisted the Nazis in Occupied France
- What the Surprising History of Mah-jongg Can Teach Us About America
- What We Can Learn From the Last Time the U.K. Held Elections During a Pandemic
- The Quest to ‘Have It All’ Isn’t New. History Is Full of Mothers Who Changed the World While Taking Care of Their Children
- The Real Biggest Myths About World War II, According to a Military Historian
- The Story Behind the Declaration of Independence’s Most Memorable Line
- How I Love Lucy Changed How America Saw Motherhood
- The Antarctic Expedition That Changed Modern Medicine
- The Surprising Political History of the Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment
- Los Angeles Had a Chance to Build a Better City After the Rodney King Violence in 1992. Here’s Why It Failed
- How George Washington Organized the First Large-Scale Immunization Campaign in American History
- Who Gets to Wear a Headscarf? The Complicated History Behind France’s Latest Hijab Controversy
- My Father Fled Fascism in Spain—and Taught Me How Lies Can Destroy a Democracy
- The House Just Voted to Create a Jan. 6 Commission. Such Investigations Are a Long American Tradition
- The Documentary Final Account Is a Rare Trove of Unfiltered Interviews With Former Nazis—Too Unfiltered, Some Historians Say
- Eight Women’s Names Are Among the Thousands on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Here’s What to Know About Them
- 100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Meet the Forensic Anthropologist Searching for Victims’ Remains
- Beyond Tulsa: The Historic Legacies and Overlooked Stories of America’s ‘Black Wall Streets’
- A Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre Says Her Family Is Still Trying to Break Its Curse, 100 Years Later
- From AIDS to COVID-19, America’s Medical System Has a Long History of Relying on Filipino Nurses to Fight on the Frontlines
- Renaming U.S. Army Bases Should Start with America’s Unrecognized Veterans
- “We Owe It to Future Generations to Explain Why.” How Robert McNamara Came to Write His Memoirs About Vietnam
- This Peanuts Strip Offers a Window Into Ronald Reagan’s Changing Views on Abortion
- Melting Butter, Poisonous Mushrooms and the Strange History of the Invention of the Thermometer
- How the Pandemic Pet-Adoption Boom Fits Into the Long History of Rescuing Animals
- How Today’s World Can Help Us See That There’s More to the Ethel Rosenberg Story
- What America’s Plutocrats Today Should Learn From Past Generations
- We’ve Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It’s Time to Correct the Record
- The Letter in Which Lincoln Debated the Morality of Slavery With Himself
- As Germany Acknowledges Its Colonial-Era Genocide in Namibia, the Brutal Legacy of Diamond Mining Still Needs a Reckoning
- The Circus Was Once America’s Top Entertainment. Here’s Why Its Golden Age Began to Fade
- For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma—And Renewed Calls for Change