| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | March Madness is upon us! Millions of Americans have geared up for the NCAA men's and women's college basketball tournaments by filling out brackets and placing bets. The popularity of March Madness brackets has helped drive interest in the tournament, reflecting and also contributing to shifting American norms around sports betting. As Jonathan D. Cohen writes for Made by History, the NCAA long fought against the corrupting influence of gambling in intercollegiate sports. But with the popularity of March Madness, and the flood of gambling on professional sports stemming from a 2018 Supreme Court decision, the NCAA is now walking a fine line as it tries to protect the integrity of intercollegiate athletics while benefiting from the most-bet on sporting event of the year. | |
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| | | | | |  | Trump Is What Historians Call a 'Transformative President' | Whatever one feels about Trump, some historians say Presidencies like his and Roosevelt's can signal a new era. |
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|  | Here's What Was Revealed in the Newly Declassified JFK Files | An initial AP review of more than 63,000 pages of records released this week found some new details about covert CIA operations, particularly in Cuba. |
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|  | Alcohol Warning Labels May Not Be Enough to Change Behaviors | The U.S. may add new warning labels on alcohol. But the history of cigarette warning labels suggests it's not enough. |
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|  | Trump is Upending The American Approach to Veterans' Care | Officials have considered balancing efficiency with providing quality care and listening to veterans essential. |
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|  | What an All-Female Team to Summit Denali Can Teach Us About Historic Firsts | A look at historic firsts in American culture offers hope: These long roads will arrive at the destination, writes Cassidy Randall. |
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| | | | This week in 1974: Robert Redford and Mia Farrow |  | The Mar. 18, 1974, cover of TIME |
| Steve Schapiro |
| "One thing Paramount can count on to pull crowds into the theaters is the enduring nostalgia for the '20s and the deep affection that Americans feel for Fitzgerald. It is comforting in a somewhat diminished era of inflation and fuel shortages to savor the Jazz Age as Fitzgerald saw it, racing "along under its own power, served by great filling stations full of money." Though no longer the cult figure he was for a time in the '50s, Fitzgerald remains an ineffably romantic figure, the brilliant American novelist doomed by flawed ambition, a prodigal thirst for alcohol and a compulsion to act out the excesses of an extravagant era in American life." |
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| | This week in 1984: Michael Jackson |  | The Mar. 19, 1984, cover of TIME |
| Andy Warhol |
| "Thriller was a thorough restoration of confidence, a rejuvenation. Its effect on listeners, especially younger ones, was nearer to a revelation. Thriller brought black music back to mainstream radio, from which it had been effectively banished after restrictive 'special-format programming' was introduced in the mid-'70s. Listeners could put more carbonation in their pop and cut their heavy-metal diet with a dose of the fleetest soul around. 'No doubt about it,' says Composer-Arranger Quincy Jones, who produced Off the Wall and Thriller with Jackson. 'He's taken us right up there where we belong. Black music had to play second fiddle for a long time, but its spirit is the whole motor of pop. Michael has connected with every soul in the world.'" |
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| This week in 2008: Hillary Clinton |  | The Mar. 17, 2008, cover of TIME |
| David Burnett |
| "But the victories gave Clinton so much more. Even if she fails to win the nomination, as seems likely, she has finally defined herself as a public figure, and an attractive one at that, with a personality independent of her husband's. She isn't as clever as he is, but she's just as tenacious…and, in an odd way, more vulnerable and more real. Her flashes of anger and sarcasm, her occasional emotional overflows, her willingness to just go on about health insurance–these are all recognizable human qualities that, in the strangest turnabout of this campaign, have made her seem more accessible than her opponent. For the first time, she doesn't seem elite and entitled. For the first time, she's almost one of us." |
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