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

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Hitler attending the funeral of Kurt Eisner, a jewish-socialist revolutionary and minister President of Bavaria, Munich, 1919 (800×636)

Posted 15 days ago
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Photograph of a fallen soldier from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, taken by German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt

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Mom making up the bunk beds 1950s

Posted 16 days ago
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Bosnian snipers, including Nadia Jeriagic (at left) with an SVD Dragunov, set up on a couch - from a position on the 20th floor of an apartment building - during the Siege of Sarajevo, c. 1992 - 1995.

Posted 16 days ago
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"Equal Rights for Negroes, everywhere!" Communist Party USA election poster, 1932.

Posted 16 days ago
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The Future Pope Leo XIV (1982)

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Sharp kodachrome shot of a family in the early 1970s. Love how the little chubby toddler is the only one looking other way.

Posted 16 days ago
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Harry Powers, the "Butcher of Clarksburg", stands in jail after confessing to murdering five people, including a mother and her three children, ages 10 to 14, whom he strangled and beat to death. The police explained the bruises by claiming that Harry had "fallen up" some stairs, 1931 .

Posted 16 days ago
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A French soldier in 1918, equipped with a helmet with chainmail to protect the eyes from shell fragments, stones, and other dangerous elements

Posted 17 days ago
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Mom and Dad. Mad respect!

Posted 17 days ago
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A Vietnamese teenager buttons up her mother’s blouse after she was sexually assaulted by American GI's. They were gunned down moments after this photo was taken. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 16 March 1968.

Posted 17 days ago
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The American Nazi 1958

Posted 17 days ago