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On March 5, 1906, US forces began the assault on Bud Dajo in the Philippines. For 4 days, troops fired into a volcanic crater, killing nearly 1,000 Moro people—including many women & children.

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Chicago elementary school teacher Kathy Ainsworth enters her classroom. She was part of one of the most militant white supremacist groups of the 1960s. She was killed in a shootout with police in Mississippi after she and a Klansman tried to assassinate a prominent Jewish figure there .

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Photobooth shot of a young couple, Marksville, Louisiana, 1958

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Iraqi workers clean debris near a large pool of blood at the scene of a suicide attack in the city of Hilla, February 28, 2005. A suicide bomber detonated a car near police recruits and a crowded market, killing 115 people and wounding 148 in bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall Hussein

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Guarded by 400 troops of the Missouri National Guard, John Henry Riney, a young black man charged with raping a white woman, is escorted to his trial (Arkansas, 1941) .

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My parents some months before they married, in 1981.

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How Conservatives become Instant Liberals (Don Wright, 2004)

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French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

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Rick Steves: "Here I am, heading off to Europe the day after high school graduation in 1973 — with a budget of $3 a day, a ten-week Eurail pass in my pocket, and the biggest backpack I could find, jam-packed. I came home with no money, a malnourished body, and an enduring love of Europe."

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German refugees cross a destroyed bridge. Elbe River, Germany, May 1, 1945.

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Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003

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Little girl stares towards the hands of a woman preparing the polio vaccine, 1955.

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

On March 5, 1906, ​US forces began the assault on Bud Dajo in the Philippines. For 4 days, troops fired into a volcanic crater, killing nearly 1,000 Moro people—including many women & children.

Chicago elementary school teacher Kathy Ainsworth enters her classroom. She was part of one of the most militant white supremacist groups of the 1960s. She was killed in a shootout with police in Mississippi after she and a Klansman tried to assassinate a prominent Jewish figure there .

Photobooth shot of a young couple, Marksville, Louisiana, 1958

Iraqi workers clean debris near a large pool of blood at the scene of a suicide attack in the city of Hilla, February 28, 2005. A suicide bomber detonated a car near police recruits and a crowded market, killing 115 people and wounding 148 in bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall Hussein

Guarded by 400 troops of the Missouri National Guard, John Henry Riney, a young black man charged with raping a white woman, is escorted to his trial (Arkansas, 1941) .

My parents some months before they married, in 1981.

How Conservatives become Instant Liberals (Don Wright, 2004)

French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

Rick Steves: "Here I am, heading off to Europe the day after high school graduation in 1973 — with a budget of $3 a day, a ten-week Eurail pass in my pocket, and the biggest backpack I could find, jam-packed. I came home with no money, a malnourished body, and an enduring love of Europe."

German refugees cross a destroyed bridge. Elbe River, Germany, May 1, 1945.

Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq March 31, 2003

Little girl stares towards the hands of a woman preparing the polio vaccine, 1955.

On March 5, 1906, US forces began the assault on Bud Dajo in the Philippines. For 4 days, troops fired into a volcanic crater, killing nearly 1,000 Moro people—including many women & children.