| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | This summer, Americans are poised to travel to national parks in record-breaking numbers. In the midst of rapidly shifting federal policy and ongoing economic uncertainties, Americans are once again embracing the great outdoors as a respite from everyday pressures and anxieties. As Professor Felicia Viator writes in Made By History, this isn't the first time in history Americans have turned to nature as a relief from the stresses of modern life. In the late 19th century, advances in technology, transportation, and communication transformed the way Americans lived and worked. These innovations brought positive change, but they also took a toll on Americans' mental health. Concerned physicians, naturalists, and even President Theodore Roosevelt promoted the "West cure", spending time in newly developed national and state parks or engaging in outdoor recreation, as a solution. Revisiting this history is a reminder that investing in national parks has long been viewed as part and parcel of investing in the overall well-being of the American people. | |
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| | | | | |  | The History of Music Copyright—Before (Taylor's Version) | Taylor Swift has raised public awareness about the intricacies of copyright law and the value of artists' work. |
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|  | How Vodka Became America's Spirit of Choice | In the 1960s and 1970s, vodka manufacturers took advantage of cultural shifts to overtake whiskey. |
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|  | The History Behind Pope Leo XIV's Name | The previous Pope Leo emphasized the Catholic Church's responsibility to care for the poor and support workers' rights. |
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|  | The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück's Story of Resistance | A new book profiles the women who resisted in an all-female Nazi concentration camp |
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|  | The Story Behind Immersive Documentary D-Day: The Camera Soldier | How a photographer's footage of Omaha Beach on D-Day was turned into a documentary on Apple Vision Pro |
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| | | | | This week in 1998: Jim Carrey |  | The June 1, 1998, cover of TIME |
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| "By the standards of today's Hollywood, The Truman Show is unusual in that it has many levels of meaning. In one sense it is an allegory about the ways in which a performer can be imprisoned by the demands, even love, of an audience. If you are a movie comedian who is graduating to more substantial roles but is still most famous for having made teenage boys laugh by pretending to talk with your buttocks, this is an allegory to which you can surely relate. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian at 60 doing the same character and the same act," says Jim Carrey, 36…[on The Truman Show]: "It's a hopeful story. It's about a man who will not be beaten. Presented with a challenge, he becomes the explorer he always wanted to be. In my best scenario, I want to turn out to be Truman Burbank. I want to turn out to be the guy who won't let himself be caged but still has hope and faith in people, and life." |
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| | This week in 2009: Michelle Obama |  | The June 1, 2009, cover of TIME |
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| "The great-great-granddaughter of slaves now occupies a house built by them, one of the most professionally accomplished First Ladies ever cheerfully chooses to call herself Mom in Chief, and the South Side girl whose motivation often came from defying people who tried to stop her now gets to write her own set of rules…it's hard not to wonder if Michelle isn't daring us all to just roll with it, to be a little bolder at a time when the country could use all the courage it can muster. 'You've got to make choices that make sense for you,' she says, 'because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.' When prodded, she admits with a wry smile that there are moments when she misses her old, anonymous knock-around days. 'It's a lot easier to live your life,' she says, 'when everything you do doesn't have a consequence.'" |
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| This week in 2010: the Catholic church |  | The June 7, 2010, cover of TIME |
| Illustration by Tim O'Brien for TIME, based on a photograph by Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images. |
| "The crisis facing the church is deeply complicated by the fact that in 1980, as Archbishop of Munich, the future Benedict XVI appears to have mismanaged the assignment of an accused pedophile priest under his charge. That revelation — and questions about Ratzinger's subsequent oversight of cases as a top Vatican official — has been the trigger in turning a rolling series of national scandals into an epic and existential test for the universal church, its leader and its faithful alike…What is still missing, however, is any mention of the Holy Father's alleged role in the scandal. Can the Pope, the living embodiment of the ancient Gospel and absolute spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, publicly atone for his sins and yet preserve the theological impregnability of the papacy?" |
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