| | | | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | The second Trump Administration has made numerous education policy moves premised on the idea that DEI programs have outlived their usefulness. There's just one problem, Heather McNamee argues in Made by History: this idea requires a misreading of history — one in which the mission of the civil rights movement is complete. McNamee chronicles how one famous episode, the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, reveals what's wrong with seeing civil rights as a story with an ending. Most Americans learn a triumphant, feel-good narrative in which President Dwight Eisenhower dispatched troops to protect the nine Black students who integrated Central High. But the legal and political fight to desegregate Little Rock's schools continued for more than 60 years after that, and produced mixed results at best. It's a far more complex story, but, McNamee writes, achieving equity in American schools requires a complete understanding of how hard it is to move past injustice. | The Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world (and a sponsor of Made by History), annually awards $300,000 each to nine early and mid-career scholars and practitioners in historical disciplines, acknowledging their outstanding achievements to date and to support future work. Anyone can nominate a practitioner in the relevant disciplines, and nominations for the 2026 Prize are open until Sept. 24. For more information visit dandavidprize.org/nominate. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This week in 1952: Katharine Hepburn |  | The Sep. 1, 1952, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "In Kate Hepburn's 24 years on stage and screen, her detractors have been many. Yet most of them have had to eat their words. The most damning thing ever said of her was in 1938, when Harry Brandt, a movie exhibitor, labeled Kate 'boxoffice poison.' But this year Kate is stronger than she ever was: her last two films, The African Queen and Pat and Mike, are top box-office hits of the season. Two years ago, Kate dazzled Broadway and the road as Rosalind in As You Like It. This week, in London, she is playing to packed houses and critical huzzahs in the title role of Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess…Kate often leaves them wondering. 'I strike people as peculiar in some way, although I don't quite understand why,' she says. 'Of course, I have an angular face, an angular body, and, I suppose, an angular personality which jabs into people.'" |
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| | This week in 1989: The Rolling Stones |  | The Sep. 4, 1989, cover of TIME |
| Ken Regan |
| "There was never any cardinal rule about rock — that was its only cardinal rule — and it can't be written off or knocked off because, from its sheer quality and audacity, it has persisted. No rules, no predictable half-life. Rock may have become Big Business, but it still has no set agenda and no fixed address. Lots of names, lots of labels, lots of styles, and by now lots of history, some of it even proud. But despite everything, it still can't be tightly classified or tied down. It's still a cultural orphan, hiding out on the far end of respectability: it has age, but it has no home. Or, as the greatest rock writer of all put it, splitting the distinction like an atom, no direction home. Like a complete unknown. Like a rolling stone." |
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| This week in 2001: The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena |  | The Sep. 3, 2001, cover of TIME |
| Adrees Latif |
| "When the women's tour arrives in New York City this week for the U.S. Open, it will be the women's final, not the men's, that CBS airs in prime time…the Williams sisters are celebrities as much as they are tennis players. 'We're two sisters. That's new and exciting,' says Serena, sounding very much like a younger sister. And they act like sisters. Really close sisters. Besides living together, they usually share hotel rooms at tournaments. They sit next to each other in their classes. They want to start a clothing business together. When Venus loses her wallet, which is surprisingly often, Serena often finds it. Venus even sticks her nose in Serena's mouth to find out what she ate." |
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