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

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“Next time! We’ll learn our lesson next time!!!” A comic illustration depicting the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, 2021

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13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, just hours after the Atomic Bomb detonation 40 miles away. Barbara was the only person in the photo that lived to see 30 years old.

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My grandparents' engagement photo, circa 1927, Kokomo, Indiana. They were married 60+ years and raised seven children, all of whom graduated from college. Two were teachers, which made them very proud because that was such a respected profession to them.

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This is the oldest picture of the White House ever taken. 1846.

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Marine giving a Japanese Soldier a cigarette after discoving he had buried himself and played dead for nearly two days, Iwo Jima, 1945

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'The Two Faces of General Franco' — a 1950 Mexican caricature by Miguel Covarrubias depicting Francisco Franco with one side as a murderous Nazi and the other as an anti-communist hero

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The 1950's ... when Grandma's really spoiled their grandkids.

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Iranian amateur bodybuilder posing with his home made weights, 1920s

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1957, Union boss Jimmy Hoffa flipping off Robert Kennedy at "Teamster Hearings"

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My great grandma in 1937 at age 19

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A German Waffen-SS soldier that was captured by US soldiers during the Normandy campaign, 1944 (2276x2600)

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"Loose Lips" sign at US Atomic Test Site 1952

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