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Police Arresting Black Man For Looting

movies What We Still Get Wrong About What Happened in Detroit in 1967 Almost exactly 50 years ago, when TIME looked for one experience with which to summon the mood of the riots that swept Detroit in the summer of 1967, the magazine turned to Hubert G. Locke, then

Natl Guardsmen With Bayonets, Detroit

movies Rep. John Conyers on Detroit in 1967: 'I Couldn't Stop It'Any movie based on a true story will take certain liberties, and Kathryn Bigelow’s examination of the events of the 1967 riot in Detroit—Detroit, out Friday—acknowledges that some

Statue of Liberty on a blue sky day

Immigration The Poem on the Statue of Liberty Was 'Added Later' But There's More to That Story The history of the Statue of Liberty became the focus of a back-and-forth between Stephen Miller, an aide to President Donald Trump, and CNN’s Jim Acosta during the White House Press Briefing

Exterior View of White House in Construction

White House Is the White House a 'Dump'? It Used to Be The White House is often seen as a symbol of American strength and splendor — even though President Trump reportedly called the executive mansion “a real dump,” according to a new

Legs Of A Scout Returning From Vacation In 1960.

society How Europe's Young Backpackers Forged a New Wave of International Collaboration This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. In the years following the Second World War, western Europe, through private and public

A Young Girl & Her Coloring Book

Books The Surprising Function of the First Coloring Books Though the craze for coloring books for grown-ups has recently drawn many adults back to a hobby that had been seen as something for kids, it turns out that adult coloring books are actually how the

Algiers Motel

movies The Real Events Behind the Movie Detroit, as Described in 1968 When Detroit, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow’s take on that city’s violent summer of 1967, arrives in movie theaters on Friday, 50 years will have passed since the events it depicts took

Russian Adoption

politics How Russian Adoptions Became a Controversial Topic The controversy over a meeting involving members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials continues to grow. But one aspect of it may seem curious to people who don’t follow Russian

Alice and the Fairies, July 1917.

Books Inside the Elaborate Hoax That Made British Society Believe in Fairies One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century began with a sensational headline: Fairies Photographed! The yarn endured for six decades, until a rather disappointing confession in the 1980s

Game of Thrones

Television The Real History Behind That Gruesome Greyscale Treatment on Game of ThronesWarning: This post contains spoilers for Season 7 of Game of Thrones Nobody said it would be easy to cure greyscale, the fictional condition from which Game of Thrones characters shrink in fear.

Statue of Liberty on a blue sky day

Immigration The Poem on the Statue of Liberty Was 'Added Later' But There's More to That Story The history of the Statue of Liberty became the focus of a back-and-forth between Stephen Miller, an aide to President Donald Trump, and CNN’s Jim Acosta during the White House Press Briefing

Exterior View of White House in Construction

White House Is the White House a 'Dump'? It Used to Be The White House is often seen as a symbol of American strength and splendor — even though President Trump reportedly called the executive mansion “a real dump,” according to a new

Legs Of A Scout Returning From Vacation In 1960.

society How Europe's Young Backpackers Forged a New Wave of International Collaboration This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. In the years following the Second World War, western Europe, through private and public

A Young Girl & Her Coloring Book

Books The Surprising Function of the First Coloring Books Though the craze for coloring books for grown-ups has recently drawn many adults back to a hobby that had been seen as something for kids, it turns out that adult coloring books are actually how the

Algiers Motel

movies The Real Events Behind the Movie Detroit, as Described in 1968 When Detroit, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow’s take on that city’s violent summer of 1967, arrives in movie theaters on Friday, 50 years will have passed since the events it depicts took

Russian Adoption

politics How Russian Adoptions Became a Controversial Topic The controversy over a meeting involving members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials continues to grow. But one aspect of it may seem curious to people who don’t follow Russian

Alice and the Fairies, July 1917.

Books Inside the Elaborate Hoax That Made British Society Believe in Fairies One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century began with a sensational headline: Fairies Photographed! The yarn endured for six decades, until a rather disappointing confession in the 1980s

Game of Thrones

Television The Real History Behind That Gruesome Greyscale Treatment on Game of ThronesWarning: This post contains spoilers for Season 7 of Game of Thrones Nobody said it would be easy to cure greyscale, the fictional condition from which Game of Thrones characters shrink in fear.

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