Are the U.S. and North Korea at war?

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Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine February 28, 2019 By Lily Rothman We're changing our email address. To ensure delivery of future newsletters, please add time@newsletters.time.com to your address book. When this week's summit in Vietnam between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended on Thursday without any agreement between the leaders, one of the anticipated possible outcomes left on the table was an official declaration that the U.S. and North Korea are no longer at war. That's because the U.S. never officially declared war when the Korean War began in 1950, and when fighting ended in 1953 the armistice never led to an official peace. Click here to read more about how exactly all that worked, and whether the U.S. and North Korea are technically still at war today. Here's more of the history that made news this week: HISTORY ON TIME.COM Incentives for Business Were Controversial Long Before Amazon The first institutionalized and continuous state system for providing such incentives grew out of a scheme to bring shirt-maker Reliance Manufacturing to a logged-out lumber town in the depths of the Great Depression The Women Who Served With the U.S. Military During WWI Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels decided to take advantage of a loophole in the Naval Act of 1916, which did not specify that only men could enlist Mapping the Grand Canyon Shaped a Vision of Climate Trouble It's been a century since Congress passed the act designating the Grand Canyon as a national park, but celebrations are joined by serious discussions about the park's future and preserving it These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell In 1944 and 1945, while serving as a U.S. Navy photographer, Wayne Miller created a photographic series about a segregated all-black unit on Guam Is If Beale Street Could Talk Based on a True Story? The answer is complicated: One of James Baldwin's friends was falsely accused of murdering a decorated Marine and spent more than six years behind bars FROM THE TIME VAULT Today in 1977: Linda Ronstadt “Linda Ronstadt, this high-wattage waif, would be a rarity if all she had done were to survive for twelve years in the shark-infested deeps of rock. In fact, each of her last four albums has "gone platinum" — sold better than a million copies — and her last two, Hasten Down the Wind and Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits, reached sales of a million in a matter of weeks. Before Christmas she finished a wildly cheered six-month tour of the U.S. and Europe, during which audiences of 15,000 were common.” (Feb. 28, 1977) Read the full story This Week in 1960: Pat Nixon “During the past seven years at her husband's side, she has covered 148,229 miles in 52 foreign countries, 125,266 miles in political peregrinations at home. Even in her private life—which she ruefully admits has been whittled down to 10% of her total time—she rarely relaxes. Whenever she and Dick Nixon get home after a formal evening—no matter how late at night—she methodically inspects her evening gown for superficial damage and makes any necessary repairs then and there, then catalogues the dress on a rotation calendar before hanging it up. She cannot enter a room without plumping up a pillow, offering a cigarette to a guest, or somehow making herself useful. In Pat Nixon's busy life there is little room for bridge, or bird watching, or other leisure.’” (Feb. 29, 1960) Read the full story This Week in 1926: Marion Talley “She ran on stage just five minutes after the curtain went up on the second act. It was a nervous, awkward little run, as if she would start at once with the business of the evening. But for the audience the business of the evening had begun. They would not wait to hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet. "Mia Padre", she began, trying once more to be Gilda.” (March 1, 1926) Read the full story HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WEB Secret Agent Man Zach Dorfman at Yahoo! News goes back to the 1970s for a fascinating and in-depth look at both the CIA’s actions within the United States and Russia’s attempts to influence American politics. What Happened Here For the New York Times, Audra D.S. Burch, Veda Shastri and Tim Chaffee take an interactive visit to the site of one of American history’s most notorious crimes: the murder of Emmett Till. Laid to Rest The strange story of the glass casket industry comes to life thanks to Allison C. Meier at Collectors Weekly. Response Time After his op-ed that placed some responsibility for lack of public history engagement with historians sparked outcry within the field, Max Boot responds at the Washington Post. Q&A Jason Herbert, the man behind Historians at the Movies, speaks to Emma Pettit at the Chronicle of Higher Education about the intersection of history and pop culture. To Unsubscribe Unsubscribe here if you do not want to receive this newsletter. Update Email Click here to update your email address. 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