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Explore fresh reads on battles, biographies, culture and lesser‑known moments from history.

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The mother offered her children for sale in Chicago in 1948 due to extreme poverty hiding her face in shame

Posted 3 hours ago
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“Tough, I Am” - One Eye Pete, ca 1890

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"The If-Hitler-Loses-We're-Sunk Corporation"—American cartoon from the Second World War, June 1941

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I just posted my grandma at 17, this is her and my grandpa right after they got married. Absolutely stunning, both of them.

Posted 6 hours ago
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A Wehrmacht officer of the 707th Division hangs two Belorussian teenagers in Nazi-Occupied Minsk, photographed during Operation Barbarossa. October 26, 1941.

Posted 10 hours ago
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Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust - stands in the yard of Ayalon Prison - in Ramla, Israel, c. April 1961.

Posted 18 hours ago
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My mom (age 15) stretching the phone cord for some privacy. St. Louis Park, MN, circa 1959.

Posted 20 hours ago
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On this day in 1864, the first Union POWs arrived at Andersonville- a newly constructed stockade in Georgia that would soon become one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Almost 13,000 POWs died here from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure.

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The 'Hasanlu lovers' died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972 in iran They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss and remained that way for 2800 years

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"Tradition" — a cartoon by Osmani Simanca, 2015

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I'll never be as cool as my grandparents, 1950's

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A young Bosnian woman holding an AK-47. Smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service in Sarajevo (1992)

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