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History: Part 54
- Medical Myths About Gender Roles Go Back to Ancient Greece. Women Are Still Paying the Price Today
- The Untold Story of a Secret Unit of Heroic Jewish Commandos in World War II
- Declared Insane for Speaking Up: The Dark American History of Silencing Women Through Psychiatry
- Today’s Crypto Fanatics Could Learn a Lot From Isaac Newton’s Money Mishaps
- How One Drag Performer’s Overlooked Activism Helped Lay the Groundwork for Today’s Fight for Transgender Rights
- The Forgotten Woman Who Helped Save Countless Birds by Challenging the Fashion for Feathers
- No, the Vikings Did Not Discover America. Here’s Why That Myth is Problematic
- Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly
- You Can’t Tell the Story of 1776 Without Talking About Race and Slavery
- ‘The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.’ What Can the Alamo’s History Teach Us About Teaching History?
- Zaila Avant-garde Knows the Troubling History Behind Her Historic Spelling Bee Win
- Tsar Nicolas II Thought Vodka Was Hurting Russians—But Banning It Helped Destroy His Empire
- Working for J. Edgar Hoover, I Saw His Worst Excesses and Best Intentions
- Emmett Till Would Have Been 80 Today. His Story Still Defines the Ongoing Fight for Justice
- Read an Excerpt From the Next Installment of John Lewis’ Graphic-Novel Memoir
- This Pioneering Officer Led an All-Black Women’s Army Corps Battalion in a Daunting World War II Mission: Saving Soldiers’ Mail
- Joe Biden Should Follow George Washington’s Lead and ‘Inoculate All the Troops’
- How Robert F. Kennedy Shaped His Brother’s Response to Civil Rights
- American Schools Are Failing to Equip Students With Racial Literacy—And We’ve Seen Firsthand How It Happens
- As U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top the Civil War’s Toll, We’re Repeating Disease History
- How a TIME Art Critic Covered Chuck Close Across the Decades
- New Documents Reveal the Bloody Origins of America’s Long War on Drugs
- How Candyman Reclaims the History of Cabrini-Green
- The Bible Talks About Slavery. So Why Are Conservative Christians So Afraid of Critical Race Theory?
- How the Origins of Epidemiology Are Linked to the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- 50 Years After Attica, Prisoners Are Still Protesting Brutal Conditions. Will America Finally Listen?
- Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue Is Gone. Now It’s Up to the City to Shape What That Means
- How a Domestic Violence Exposé Ushered In a New Era for the Miss America Pageant
- America Has Always Struggled to Memorialize Tragedy. Some Communities Are Trying to Do Better for COVID-19
- The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban
- How Wealthy American Expats Transformed the British Aristocracy
- Why We Must Hear the Warning in Frederick Douglass’ ‘Sources of Danger to the Republic’ Today
- The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Political Movement in Revolutionary America
- The Overlooked American Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Is Ukraine’s New Holocaust Memorial Also an Instrument of Kremlin Propaganda?
- How History Is Repeating Itself for Haitian Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S.
- What History Teaches Us About Women Forced to Carry Unwanted Pregnancies to Term
- Vaccines Can’t End Pandemics Alone—And We’ve Known That Since We Eradicated Smallpox
- Rome Didn’t Fall When You Think It Did. Here’s Why That Fabricated History Still Matters Today
- The March
- How Christopher Columbus Became an Italian-American Icon
- The Overlooked LGBTQ+ History of the Harlem Renaissance
- There’s No Definitive List of Roman Empresses. Their Individual Stories Still Matter
- The True Story Behind The Last Duel—and History’s Attempt to Erase It
- What the History of Money Says About Its Future
- How History Erased the Black Mariner Who ‘Opened’ the Pacific
- Why We Can’t Ignore Our Dreams
- Climate Chaos Helped Spark the French Revolution—and Holds a Dire Warning for Today
- The ‘Forrest Gump of Activism’ Who Helped HIV/AIDS Patients Get Life-Saving Treatment Information
- In Lawsuit Against Texas Redistricting Maps, Plaintiffs See History Repeating
- Black Political Rights Can’t Be Divorced From Economic Justice. Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message and Fight Endure Today
- The 19th Century Advocate For ‘Free Love’ and Women’s Liberty
- The Many Lives of H. Rap Brown
- Schools Could Help More Kids Get the COVID-19 Vaccine. But History Has Some Warnings
- Benjamin Franklin’s Writing About Losing His Son to Smallpox Is a Must-Read for Parents Weighing COVID-19 Vaccines Today
- Mako Komuro Isn’t the First Female Scion of Japan’s Royal Family to Have Suffered From Mental Stress
- The Real Black Cowboys That Inspired Netflix’s The Harder They Fall
- Christian Archaeologists Wanted to Excavate the Biblical Past. They Ended Up Sparking Today’s Strife in Jerusalem
- Magic Johnson’s HIV Disclosure Helped to Shatter Stigmas. But 30 Years Later, Disparities in Treatment Remain
- America’s Last King Wasn’t the Crazy Tyrant You’ve Been Led to Believe
- What the 1893 World’s Fair Teaches Us About White Feminism Today
- What Early Drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five Reveal About Kurt Vonnegut’s Struggles
- Why Four Black Women Stood Up to the U.S. Army During World War II
- The Complex History Behind Belfast—and Its Echoes in Present-Day Northern Ireland
- What the True Story of Buffalo Bill Reveals About the Myth of the Wild West
- ‘We’re Preparing For a Long Battle.’ Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
- How a Powhatan Tribal Chief Became One of Colonial America’s Greatest Military Leaders
- The ‘Vindicating’ Exoneration of 2 Men Convicted of Malcolm X’s Murder
- A Brief History of the Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation—And Where Biden Fits In
- What Thanksgiving Means Today to the Native American Tribe That Fed the Pilgrims
- The ‘First Thanksgiving’ Story Covers Up the All Too Real Violence in Early America
- Why This Trans Boy Had More Rights a Century Ago Than Many Trans Children Today
- Bob Dole, Senate Legend Who Championed Compromise, Dies at 98
- America Learned the Wrong Lessons From Pearl Harbor—And the World Is Still Living With the Consequences
- What America Owes Black Veterans of World War II
- How World Leaders’ Reactions to Pearl Harbor Changed the Course of World War II
- 3 Myths About Pearl Harbor, According to a Military Historian
- The U.S. Almost Had Universal Childcare 50 Years Ago. The Same Attacks Might Kill It Today
- Compared to Polio and Smallpox, America’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Is Going Great
- The Grim History of Christmas for Enslaved People in the Deep South
- Why It’s Time to Shed Some Light on History’s ‘Dark Ages’
- What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today
- 25 Years Later, the Murder of JonBenét Ramsey Remains Unsolved—and Issues It Highlighted Persist
- Harry Reid, Understated Political Strategist Who Mastered the Inside Game, Dies at 82
- Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021
- Louisiana Gov. Pardons Homer Plessy, 125 Years After SCOTUS ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling
- What the History of the Word “Insurrection” Says About Jan. 6
- A New Report Finds That 45 States Are ‘Failing’ to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War
- I Searched for Answers About My Enslaved Ancestor. What I Found Was More Questions
- The Forgotten History of a British Ship that Fought a Notorious Slaver—and Won
- How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed His Mind About America
- How the Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence Spurred 2 States to Change History Lessons
- A Lesson of the Holocaust: One Person Can Make All the Difference
- Where the New First Cat Fits in the History of Presidential Pets
- Why Toni Morrison’s Books Are So Often the Target of Book Bans
- These Rebels Fought Conformity in 1950s America—and Are Still Making a Difference Today
- The Legacy of the Reconstruction Era’s Black Political Leaders
- The U.S. Capitol Is Filled With Racist Depictions of Native Americans. It’s Time for Them to Go
- How World War II’s ‘Dear John’ Letters Changed American Society
- The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an Abolitionist