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

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Peggy Seale Harris never learned what happened to her husband Billie, whose plane was shot down over Les Ventes, France in 1944. 60 years later she was shocked to learn the town had been memorializing him and his sacrifice.

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Visiting my grandmother with my cat purse in hand, 1957

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U.S. cavalry soldiers pose in front of a sequoia in Yosemite known as "Grizzly Giant," in 1900.

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Family photo of a mixed couple in Pittsburgh, Agfa negative, 1940s

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Cheeky newlyweds, 1954

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“Gays & Lesbians Against Nazis!” Germany, 1989

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A teenage boy giving flowers to princess diana with the help of his friends, 1989

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High school graduation day, 1979

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Captain Herbert Sobel, of Band of Brothers infamy, with his infant son, ca 1946

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A court clerk examines the cabin where Raymond Ellison, 37, and his 12-year-old wife, Imogene Sims, lived. Ellison, who married the girl to avoid statutory rape charges, had just been arrested for murdering her. The photo was publicized by the Louisville Courier Journal, Kentucky, 1948 .

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Conan Taken By John Candy At Harvard (1984)

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Teenage crisis, then and now (International Herald Tribune, 2014)

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