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'Wokeness' Isn't Bad for the Military

By Mitchell Lerner / Made by History

Jimmy Carter's Secret to Living to 99, Per His Grandson

By Olivia B. Waxman

For Hospitals, ‘Nonprofit’ Doesn't Mean ‘Charitable’

By Colleen M. Grogan / Made by History

How Cable News Upended Politics

By Kathryn Cramer Brownell / Made by History
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The Century That Created Today's Media

The development of film, radio and national newsweeklies led to the media environment we know today

By Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History

The Most Famous Historian of Rome on Why Men Are Obsessed

Mary Beard weighs in on the latest TikTok trend and why Romans would have loved social media.

By Olivia B. Waxman

What the Luddites Can Teach Us About AI

Author Brian Merchant says the Luddites have never been more relevant.

By Billy Perrigo

Civil Rights' Roots in the Jim Crow South

Civil rights were vindicated in courts, but they were made by people pursuing their everyday lives, writes Dylan C. Penningroth.

By Dylan C. Penningroth

Finding Love in the Shadow of War

From Nabokov to Arendt to Dietrich, a vivid new book captures the love affairs of the greatest creative forces of the 1930s.

By Florian Illies

Why We Can't Get Over the Roman Empire

A historian on how Roman Empire offers a distorted view of America.

By Tom Holland

Who Was Thomas Smallwood?

The history of the man who coined the term 'underground railroad.'

By Olivia B. Waxman

Inside the Controversy Over the National Museum of the American Latino

The National Museum of the American Latino doesn’t even have a building yet, but its work is already controversial.

By Olivia B. Waxman

History of Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories

An expert on conspiracy theories talks about antisemitism from the Rothschilds to George Soros.

By Olivia B. Waxman

Impeachment Experts: Biden Probe Is Weak

Two impeachment experts tell TIME there is less evidence implicating Biden of wrongdoing than any previous inquiries into a president.

By Mini Racker

Ken Burns on How to Teach the Dark Parts of History

In a video provided exclusively to TIME, Ken Burns talks to a high school teacher about the culture wars and how to teach history.

By Olivia B. Waxman

The Longest Strike in U.S. History

The Kohler strike lasted for 11 years from 1954 to 1965, and has a legacy still being felt today.

By Olivia B. Waxman

What Tolstoy Can Teach Us About Geopolitics

To understand what might happen next in this tumultuous world, one needs a literary imagination, writes Robert D. Kaplan

By Robert D. Kaplan

What Prigozhin's Death Reveals About Putin's Power

With the likely killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin reasserted his power, but Russian history offers lessons on state violence and control

By Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Why Historian Jill Lepore Hated 'Barbie'

Historian Jill Lepore discussed her new collection of essays, why she became a historian, and why she hated the Barbie movie.

By Olivia B. Waxman

The First Televised Presidential Debate Isn't What You Think It Was

Many people think of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate. But some argue the first televised presidential debate was four years earlier.

By Melissa August
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