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

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"Politically Incorrect" Far-Right Painting by Jon McNaughton, 2022

Posted 11 days ago
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Grandfather 1973

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Sanatorium for lung diseases in Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland, 1970s. Photo by Chris Niedenthal.

Posted 12 days ago
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My Aunt Donna was such a vibe.

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Sharecropper mother teaching her children numbers and letters in a make-do classroom she added to their Transylvania, Louisiana home, 1939. (960x776)

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A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan, circa 1870s.

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Me and my grandfather on Christmas morning, 1981.

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American anti-masturbation cartoon (1875) comparing the decay of the 'masturbator' with the vitality of the 'abstainer'.

Posted 13 days ago
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Moses Hardy, the last African American WW1 veteran who was the son of ex-slaves. He survived a mustard gas attack in France, being awarded the Victory Medal by the Mississippi National Guard and the French Legion d'honneur (The most prestigious national order of merit) Nov. 4 2005 (394x284)

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Irena Sendler, of the Polish resistance group Zegota, helped thousands of Jewish children escape the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust of World War II. Warsaw, Poland, 1944

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Elsie Allcock has lived in the same house for 104 years

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2 Kids 'Dancing in the Street' in 1940s NY.

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