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Military Service Impacts the Presidency

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How Presidents Day Has Evolved From Reverence to Retail

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The Foods We Think Are Romantic Flipped

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Only Congress Can Get Rid of Agencies

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The True Story Behind Surviving Black Hawk Down

The Netflix docu-series Surviving Black Hawk Down looks at the most devastating moments of the Battle of Mogadishu

By Olivia B. Waxman

The History of Narcotic Farms

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction that has undermined treatment efforts.

By Holly M. Karibo / Made by History

The Media Should Learn From McCarthyism

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture attention.

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The Prerequisite to Middle Eastern Peace

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

By Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made by History

The History of the Two-State Solution

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

By Peter L. Hahn / Made by History

What History Says About Threatening Canada

President Trump rhapsodizes about the 1890 McKinley Tariff. Yet, instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, it drove the U.S.'s neighbor into the hands of the British.

By Marc-William Palen / Made by History

Trump Shares Founders' Canada Delusions

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.

By Lawrence B.A. Hatter / Made by History

Slavery and Inmate Firefighters

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight blazes.

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What's in Remaining JFK, MLK, RFK Assassination Files

What experts on John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy assassinations hope to learn from files expected to be declassified

By Olivia B. Waxman

The Flaw in RFK Jr.'s Drug Treatment Plan

Kennedy wants to create "wellness drug rehabilitation farms." But the U.S. tried it before, and it didn't work.

By Melody Glenn / Made by History

The Problem With Conservation Policy

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources. Now it needs to focus on the environment.

By Johnathan K Williams / Made by History

The Origins of Anti-Vaccination

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years in the making.

By Helen L. Murphey / Made by History

The Power of Maya Angelou's Activism

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement.

By Scott W. Stern / Made by History

Memorializing the Holocaust, Beyond Auschwitz

Auschwitz, despite its profound symbolism, was just one of countless sites where the Holocaust unfolded, and some have struggled to be recognized.

By Natalia Romik / Madę by History

Mass Deportations in a Time of Unrest

Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0.

By V.N. Trinh / Made by History

'Demographic Destiny' Was Always Flawed

The narrative assumes that disparate groups of non-white Americans had the same politics.

By Jane Hong / Made by History
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