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What My Father, RFK, Means Today

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Who Was James Wong Howe? Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Honored With Google Doodle

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A Visual History of ISIS

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The Long, Brutal History of Chemical Weapons

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How Robert Mueller Is Learning from Ken Starr's Mistakes

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election could not be more different than Ken Starr’s probe of Bill Clinton’s behavior in the 1990s.While Starr’s probe shifted focus from real estate...

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Barack Obama and John Lewis Discuss the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Barack Obama leans, ever so slightly, to his left as he tells students to brush aside their worries about controversy. The former President urges these high schoolers to speak up, fight for justice and emulate...

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There's a Subtle Feminist Message in This New Painting of Donald Trump

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President Trump Offered a History Lesson on Tariffs. Here’s What He Left Out

He cited the pro-tariff views of everyone from George Washington to Teddy Roosevelt

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Presidents' Day Quiz: Can You Put the U.S. Presidents In Order?

While Presidents’ Day was originally declared a federal holiday for the District of Columbia in 1879 to commemorate George Washington’s birthday (and is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday”) it is now widely celebrated in honor...

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When I was German: Remembering the Berlin Wall then and now

The first time I left Berlin I was a very small German person with an American mother, a German father and a very odd accent in English. I sounded like I’d been raised by 19th...

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'A Game Changer.' How a Painting of President Obama Broke the Rules

"You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting"

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The Real Story Behind the Waco Siege: Who Were David Koresh and the Branch Davidians?

The standoff between federal agents and the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas, dominated headlines for months. The siege left 75 people – including children – dead and changed the way some Americans felt about the...

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FBI Agent and Waco Survivor Unite for New Show

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The Surprisingly Complicated Meaning of Chicago West's Name

Some people think the city's name means "bad smell"

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50 Years After 1968, We Are Still Living In Its Shadow

No one in the loop–including, almost surely, the man himself–was sure he would really do it. On March 31, 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson was scheduled to address the nation about the Vietnam War at 9...

By Jon Meacham

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It was a year of change, resistance and truth-telling

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Lessons for 2018 From One of America’s Most Tumultuous Years

Many of the questions and concerns of 1968 remain strikingly relevant today

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Rex Tillerson Could Become One of the Shortest-Serving Secretaries of State

Rex Tillerson could be on his way to serving one of the shortest tenures of any Secretary of State in U.S. history.The former ExxonMobil CEO may be replaced as the nation’s top diplomat within several...

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