President Trump Is Skipping Baseball's First Pitch Tradition. Here's How Past Presidents Fared

Lily Rothman

Lily Rothman is History and Archives Editor for TIME.

Lily Rothman

Lily Rothman is History and Archives Editor for TIME.

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History President Trump Is Skipping Baseball's First Pitch Tradition. Here's How Past Presidents Fared President Donald Trump has reportedly decided not to throw out a ceremonial first pitch to start the 2017 baseball season — skipping a ritual that President Obama once said was one of the

History 50 Years Ago This Week: Behind the Scenes on a Nonstop Cross-Country Flight Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967,

History Some Call for Independent Investigation Into Russian Meddling. Here's the History You Should Know Past uses of special prosecutors and select committees shed a light on what those who demand an investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia might hope to achieve

History Here's Why the Environmental Protection Agency Was Created The Cuyahoga River burst into flames, while the Potomac stunk from the hundreds of millions of gallons of waste added to its waters every single day. As the Environmental Protection Agency becomes

LIFE 'To Praise a Poet': 30 Portraits of Poets From the LIFE Archives For nearly 20 years, the United Nations has designated March 21 as World Poetry Day, as part of UNESCO’s effort to “give poetry its rightful place in society” despite a

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History See Stirring Century-Old Artwork by French Children Reacting to World War I By the time the U.S. officially entered World War I on April 6, 1917 — nearly exactly a century ago — the war had already been ravaging Europe for years. Since the continent’s

History 50 Years Ago This Week: The Priest Who Changed the World Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967,

History These Two Drafts Show How the Balfour Declaration Evolved On the list of documents that changed history, the Balfour Declaration — the 1917 statement of official British support for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine — has surely earned

History 'I Am Not a Crook.' The Nixon Tax Story Rachel Maddow Just Compared to Trump's In the introduction to a headline-making episode Tuesday of her MSNBC show in which she revealed the contents of one of Donald Trump’s old tax returns, Rachel Maddow had cause to remind

History Why Nazi War Criminals Are Still Being Tracked Down in the U.S.The news of Poland's request to extradite 98-year-old Michael Karkoc, who is believed by authorities to have been a commander of a Nazi-led unit, shines a light on the war criminals who managed to blend into American society in the years after World War II

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