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By Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer TIME History is growing! TIME is partnering with Made by History, a platform that provides context to current events with stories assigned, written, and edited by professional historians. The first posts on TIME.com explore the origins of today’s media landscape, how cable news came to dominate TV , and what hospitals’ nonprofit status really means.  As Lily Rothman, TIME’s managing editor and the founding editor of TIME’s history section (and this newsletter), said in announcing the new partnership: “A historian's perspective always adds a crucial level of depth to any news story—after all, you can't truly understand what's happening today without knowing how we got here.”  Find all Made by History stories, as well as TIME’s own continuing history coverage, at time.com/history

HISTORY ON TIME.COM As His Rivals Argue at the Church of Reagan, Trump Kicks Dirt on the Gipper's Grave By Philip Elliott The second GOP debate unfolded under Reagan's shadow, while Trump commands a party that has seemingly moved on from the Gipper. Read More » The Most Famous Historian of Rome on Why Men Are Obsessed By Olivia B. Waxman Mary Beard weighs in on the latest TikTok trend and why Romans would have loved social media. Read More » What the Luddites Can Teach Us About AI By Billy Perrigo Author Brian Merchant says the Luddites have never been more relevant. Read More » Finding Love in the Shadow of War By Florian Illies From Nabokov to Arendt to Dietrich, a vivid new book captures the love affairs of the greatest creative forces of the 1930s. Read More » How Civil Rights Were Made—and Remade—By Black Communities In the Jim Crow South By Dylan C. Penningroth Civil rights were vindicated in courts, but they were made by people pursuing their everyday lives, writes Dylan C. Penningroth. Read More »

FROM THE TIME VAULT This week in 1957: Edward R. Murrow GIRO The Sep. 30, 1957, cover of TIME “Murrow's success is, by its lopsided domination, a reflection on the state of TV journalism as a whole…The fact that nothing new or exciting is in view to take Murrow's place is explained in great part by the nature of television. It is primarily an adman's medium conceived in escapism and dedicated to the proposition. Its role in communicating information plays second fiddle to the canned comedies, saddle-soap operas and variety shows. In its daily efforts to cover the news, television has not really made up its mind what it is trying to do.” Read More » This week in 1967: Guy Smith and Peggy Rusk wed in a milestone for interracial marriage Bill Crouch The Sep. 29, 1967, cover of TIME “In a year when black-white animosity has reached a violent crescendo in the land, two young people and their parents showed that separateness is far from the sum total of race relations in the U.S.—that to the marriage of true minds, color should be no impediment..The wedding bells rang also for Dean Rusk. Protocol makes the Secretary of State No. 1 in the President’s Cabinet, and Lyndon Johnson has made him No. 1 in presidential esteem and trust. Anything that affects Rusk personally also affects the Administration politically.” Read More » This week in 2009: Glenn Beck PHOTOGRAPH BY JILL GREENBERG / CORBIS OUTLINE. INSET, SEBELIUS: JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP The Sep. 28, 2009, cover of TIME “No one has a better feeling for this mood, and no one exploits it as well, as Beck…Beck is 45, tireless, funny, self-deprecating, a recovering alcoholic, a convert to Mormonism, a libertarian and living with ADHD. He is a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies--if he believed in conspiracies, which he doesn't, necessarily; he's just asking questions. He's just sayin'. In cheerful days of yore, he was a terrific host of a morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station. But these aren't cheerful times. For conservatives, these are times of economic uncertainty and political weakness, and Beck has emerged as a virtuoso on the strings of their discontent.” Read More »

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