Newsweek Rewind

On February 17, 1933, 'Newsweek' entered the magazine business.

Our magazine did little to calm the fears of the virus killing people in Africa

On this day 35 years ago, America's first space station burned up over Australia

On this day in 1937, Amelia Mary Earhart went missing. Now a woman with the same name is attempting to recreate the journey

Reagan's famous directive to Gorbachev, spoken on this day in 1987, foretold the end of the Cold War

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision changed the country and was a major win for the civil rights movement

For the 69th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, we decided to revisit Newsweek's coverage of the end of World War II

Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert nighttime raid in Pakistan three years ago Thursday

In the early 1980s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, surged into public awareness, seemingly out of nowhere

Columbine was not the first school shooting, nor was it the last, but it was nonetheless an event of extreme national trauma.

To cover the brutal mass murder, Newsweek interviewed a survivor who lost nearly everything—except for one of his daughters

How we covered Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain's death back in 1994

One of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, Exxon Valdez released over 10.8 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound

Two Newsweek reporters look back at the mistakes and trauma of the first days of the Iraq War

On March 12, 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed an "information management" system that became the Internet. We wrote about it in 1994.

In the midst of racial fears, 120,000 U.S. citizens lost their property and their freedom

We gave the child star quite a bit of ink in the 1930s, less when she became an ambassador in later life