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How Afeni Shakur Put Black Women First In the Fight for Liberation

By Santi Elijah Holley

Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History

By Ned Blackhawk

Speaking with My Kids About the Holocaust

By Meryl Frank 

America Is in Denial About Its British Imperialist Origins

By Sathnam Sanghera
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John Lewis on Why He Kept Telling the Story of Civil Rights

Read a previously unpublished excerpt from John Lewis' 2017 conversation with TIME

By Lily Rothman

Lessons of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

After the 1918 flu pandemic, many countries changed their approach to public health and disease. Will we do the same after COVID-19?

By Laura Spinney

Hidden Figures Hero Katherine Johnson Dies at 101

Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution

By Jeffrey Kluger

Congresss Has Always Been Partisan

In the throes of the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War, Democrats in Congress repeatedly attacked Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and even his fellow Republicans questioned his competence and investigated his generals....

By Fergus M. Bordewich

The Enduring Mystery of Malcolm X's Assassination

February 21 marks the 55th anniversary of Malcolm X's murder

By Josiah Bates

How Lincoln Healed a Divided America

Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time. On that day,...

By Edward Achorn

'History Has Been Told About Men, for Men, by Men.' How One Historian Wants to Bring a New Perspective to George Washington

An all-woman team worked on 'You Never Forget Your First,' from author to illustrator to editor

By Suyin Haynes

'You Shall Never Be a Bystander.' How We Learn About the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Are Gone

On the morning of January 27th, 1945, the first Red Army soldier walked into Auschwitz death camp, and the 7,500 remaining prisoners knew they were finally free. More than 1.1 million people died in the...

By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Do Morals Ever Matter in American Foreign Policy?

As the Middle East ferments and impeachment draws us into foreign policy, we are faced with a perennial question. Do morals matter, or are moral arguments just window dressing that presidents use to justify their...

By Joseph S. Nye Jr.

How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter on How She Honors Her Family

How to remember victims of mass murder who have no graves? For families whose members have survived genocide or other forms of mass murder, remembrance is private and visceral. They often have no body to...

By Helen Epstein

Ross Perot's Forgotten Mission During the Vietnam War

The episode reveals a lot about him—and America at the time

By Richard Farley

The Story of an Extravagant Christmas Dinner Near the North Pole in 1881

When you think of early expeditions to the Polar North, images of hardship, deprivation, frostbite and death usually come to mind. These were the realities of the 19th Century attempts to the deadly region, where...

By Buddy Levy

TIME Studios to Launch Groundbreaking Experiential Project The March at the DuSable Museum in Chicago, February 2020

The project brings Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to virtual reality for the first time

By TIME Staff

A Possible Mass Grave Could Be From the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot

Archeologists have identified what might be a mass grave of Black people killed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots, a massacre that killed 300

By Jasmine Aguilera

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley Says South Carolinians Saw the Confederate Flag as 'Service' Before Dylan Roof 'Hijacked' It

Many argued Haley was not fully acknowledging the flag's Civil War and segregationists origins

By Madeleine Carlisle

A Century After Lady Astor Took Her Seat in Parliament, How Have British Politics Changed for Women?

A century ago, Nancy Astor made the train journey from her constituency in Plymouth, a city on the coast of southwest England, to London. There, on Dec. 1, 1919, she took her seat in Parliament...

By Rachael Bunyan and Suyin Haynes
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