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History: Part 49
- Even Before the Wall, Berlin’s Zoos Were Already Cold War Rivals
- Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution Started 30 Years Ago—But It Was Decades in the Making
- The Day Clocks Changed Across America: What Happened When the U.S. Adopted Standardized Time
- Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Honored Ideals Far Older Than Four Score and Seven Years
- ‘I Was Teaching a Lot of Misconceptions.’ The Way American Kids Are Learning About the ‘First Thanksgiving’ Is Changing
- The Middle Ages Have Been Misused by the Far Right. Here’s Why It’s So Important to Get Medieval History Right
- When the Suez Canal Opened 150 Years Ago, It Helped Connect the World—And Heralded the Climate Crisis
- MI5 and the FBI Evolved Alongside One Another, But Their Relationship Hasn’t Always Been Constructive
- It’s Easy to Dismiss Debutante Balls, But Their History Can Help Us Understand Women’s Lives
- The History of Modern Mass Incarceration of African Americans Goes Deeper Than You May Think
- Lee Child: How Jack Reacher Fits Into a Long History of Folk Heroes
- A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters
- The Turkey Has Been the Subject of Thanksgiving-Day Arguments for Longer Than You Probably Think
- Anne Boleyn Has Had a Bad Reputation for Nearly 500 Years. Here’s How One Historian Wants to Change That
- A Century After Lady Astor Took Her Seat in Parliament, How Have British Politics Changed for Women?
- John Dean: William Ruckelshaus ‘Would Do the Right Thing in Virtually Any Situation’
- The WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans Stretched Beyond U.S. Borders
- ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Was Controversial From the Beginning. Here’s What to Know About Consent in the 1940s
- How Christmas Trees Became a Holiday Tradition
- The Daydream of the 1960s Ended 50 Years Ago at Altamont. Here’s What the Rolling Stones’ Official Photographer Saw That Day
- What Alexander Hamilton Would Have Thought About a Wealth Tax
- He Was Killed at Pearl Harbor. Here’s Why It Took 78 Years to Bring Him Home
- What Happened to the U.S.S. Arizona After Pearl Harbor?
- How the Meaning of the Nobel Peace Prize Has Evolved
- What Are High Crimes and Misdemeanors? Here’s the History
- Greta Thunberg Is the Youngest TIME Person of the Year Ever. Here’s How She Made History
- When Young Americans Were TIME’s Person of the Year, This Man’s Face Helped Inspire a ‘Portrait of a Generation’
- By Speaking Out, the Whistleblower Joins the Long Line of Dissenters That Have Defined America
- This Is Why Singular ‘They’ Is Such a Controversial Subject
- As More States Require Schools to Teach LGBTQ History, Resources for Teachers Expand
- How the Battle of the Bulge Got Its Name
- The New Testament Doesn’t Say What Most People Think It Does About Heaven
- ‘It Had a Lifelong Effect on Her.’ A New Virginia Woolf Biography Deals With the Author’s Experience of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- He Attended the March on Washington in 1963. Now He’ll Return to the Scene in Virtual Reality With His Great-Grandson
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers
- The Real Reason American Jews Give Gifts During Hanukkah
- The Story of an Extravagant Christmas Dinner Near the North Pole in 1881
- The Revolutionary Politics of the First Christmas
- The Real World War I History Behind the Movie 1917
- ‘The Slaves Dread New Year’s Day the Worst’: The Grim History of January 1
- 20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously
- Ellis Island Welcomed Thousands to America—But It Was Also a Detention Center
- Refugees Fleeing Nazi Germany Reshaped Hollywood. This Forgotten Woman Helped Make It Possible
- Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II
- Ross Perot’s Forgotten Mission During the Vietnam War
- The Remarkable Black Businesswomen Who Found Success in Segregated America
- How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy
- Trying to Get in Shape? Here’s the History Behind the Common New Year’s Resolution
- What We Can Learn From Ancient Graffiti
- Scientists Have Been Talking About Climate Change for More Than a Century. Here’s Why It Took So Long for the World to Listen
- History Shows What’s Wrong With the Idea That War Is ‘Normal’ in the Middle East
- Archival Photos Reveal the Unlikely Beauty of Sewer Systems
- Hundreds of Britons Volunteered for a Diary-Keeping Project in 1937. They Left an Invaluable Record of World War II
- NPR’s Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past Through His Books
- Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated
- How One Man’s Story Offers a New Way to Understand Slave Insurrection
- The Titanic Wreck Will Now Be Protected Under a ‘Momentous Agreement’ With the U.S.
- A Surprisingly Large Percentage of Young French People Don’t Know About the Holocaust, Study Finds
- What Translating a Firsthand Account of Life in Auschwitz Taught Me About the Language of Suffering
- How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? A Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter on How She Honors Her Family
- As India’s Constitution Turns 70, Opposing Sides Fight to Claim Its Author as One of Their Own
- Do Morals Ever Matter in American Foreign Policy?
- Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate
- ‘You Shall Never Be a Bystander.’ How We Learn About the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Are Gone
- A Nazi U-Boat Tactic Stumped Allied Forces — Until a Retired British Naval Officer Designed a Game to Reveal How It Worked
- 6 Films to Watch for Black History Month, Recommended by an Expert
- How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month
- What People Still Get Wrong About Segregation
- ‘History Has Been Told About Men, for Men, by Men.’ How One Historian Wants to Bring a New Perspective to George Washington
- What I Learned About Beauty by Interviewing Women Who’d Been Prisoners of the Soviet Gulag
- When U.S. Laws Punished Men for ‘Seduction,’ Women Were the Ones Who Got Judged
- Where Trump’s Acquittal Fits Into the History of Impeachment, According to Historians
- The Past and Future of Punctuation Marks
- Why Hit Movies Are Called Blockbusters
- Today’s Presidential Candidates Go Where the Voters Are—But These Past Campaigns Succeeded by Bringing the Voters to the Candidates
- The Civil War Wasn’t Just About the Union and the Confederacy. Native Americans Played a Role Too
- Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire Victory Is a Big Deal for Socialism in America. Here’s What to Know About the History of the Idea
- George Washington Made History by Deciding to Leave the Presidency. But That Didn’t Mean He Left Politics
- How Reno Became ‘the Divorce Capital of the World’—And Why That Reputation Faded
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- The Historical Origins of Today’s Campaign Proposals for ‘Free College’
- Why Suburban American Homeowners Were Accused of Being a ‘Profit-Making Cartel’ in the 1970s
- For Decades, an Annual Competition Has Challenged Students to Deliver Speeches Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. Here’s Why It’s Still Going Strong
- Behind the Making of TIME’s Martin Luther King Jr. Cover
- ‘We Have to Redeem the Soul of America.’ John Lewis on What’s Changed and What Hasn’t Since the March on Washington
- How Martin Luther King Jr. and Motown Saved the Sound of the Civil Rights Movement
- American Women Won the Right to Vote After the Suffrage Movement Became More Diverse. That’s No Coincidence
- The Enduring Mystery of Malcolm X’s Assassination
- President Trump Can Expect a Warm Welcome on His India Trip. Other U.S. Leaders Saw Chillier Relations
- ‘You Never Find Quiet Except Under a Tyranny.’ Congress Has Always Been Partisan and That’s a Good Thing.
- The Famous Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo Captured an Authentic Moment—But Gave Many Americans a False Impression
- President Trump’s Take on Parasite Echoes an Old Debate Over the Role of Non-American Films at the Oscars
- These Overlooked Black Women Shaped Malcolm X’s Life
- Hidden Figures Hero Katherine Johnson Reminded Us That Space Was Never Safe From America’s Worst Impulses
- Land Deed for Pioneering School Sheds Light on an Early American Anti-Slavery Effort
- Joyce Ladner Used Her Stories to Raise Awareness of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, She’s Telling Them in a New Way
- 7 Female Trekkers Who Helped Reclaim Nature, One Step at a Time
- ‘I Was Not Going to Stand.’ Rosa Parks Predecessors Recall Their History-Making Acts of Resistance
- Beyond The Invisible Man: A Brief History of Invisibility on Screen
- John Adams Defended Enemy Soldiers in Court. 250 Years After the Boston Massacre, Here’s How That Case Is Still Shaping Legal History