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

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My grandfather holding my mom, 1971

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Hotel owner pouring acid into swimming pool while black patrons swim, St. Augustine, Florida 1964

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"Jesus did not choose non white apostles" Protest against Harold Perry, first openly African- American Catholic bishop 1966

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Empire State Building before the city grew skyscrapers, 1930s

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My dad looking dapper for school picture day. (late 1950s) He would have been 83-years-old today.

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1179 captured participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion stand trial for treason. Among those captured were 100 plantation owners, 67 landlords of apartment houses, 35 factory owners, 112 businessmen, 179 lived off unearned income, and 194 ex-soldiers of Batista (Cuba, 1962) .

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Hitler inspects the Schwerer Gustav gun weighing more than 1,350 tons, 1941

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The face of a fallen empire, Nuremberg 1946

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Man laughs as he is chased by a lady with a stick to jam his pennyfarthing, 1900. Glass negative shot with some blurr.

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In 1978, Bob Dylan wanted something different and fired all his backup singers and half the band, including singer songwriter Katey Sagal before she moved into acting

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Never again (2002)

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An ARVN officer kicks a suspected Viet Cong captive in the face, photographed during a counterinsurgency operation. South Vietnam, October 1965.

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