Inside the Red Border: A History of Our World Told Through the Pages of TIME

As a unique window on the world, the cover of TIME is the most celebrated and coveted showcase in print journalism. People who have had their faces on TIME's cover--Presidents and movie stars, corporate titans and sporting legends--consider it one of the highest forms of recognition. To TIME's worldwide audience of nearly 50 million, the cover declares, "Dear reader, we've decided this is important for you to know."

In Inside the Red Border, thousands of weekly statements of who and what ma...