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

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Ernest Hemingway writing outdoors in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1939 while working on For Whom the Bell Tolls

Posted 17 days ago
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My Dad and His Mom 1930

Posted 17 days ago
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FBI-deployed M1A1 Abrams main battle tank (MBT) drives past the burning Branch Davidian compound - on the final day of the Waco siege, c. April 19th, 1993.

Posted 17 days ago
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'Hate, the voice of the fascist' - A South African WW2 era poster.

Posted 18 days ago
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To study the medical effects of weightlessness in space, scientists convinced Captain Druey P. Parks to toss a kitten in the air while cruising in his F-94C jet at an altitude of 25,000 feet. The following photo, taken in February 1958, captures the floating feline

Posted 18 days ago
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Young mother smiles as she helps her little boy give his first steps, February of 1952

Posted 18 days ago
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First supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini while in exile in France in 1978

Posted 18 days ago
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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003, photo. Confused front-line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards US positions

Posted 18 days ago
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Me and my mother 1972

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British soldier at the grave of his friend. Gallipoli, 1915.

Posted 19 days ago
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Me, age 3, 1969

Posted 19 days ago
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Political cartoon from 1969 about Golda Meir's visit to the United States

Posted 19 days ago