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

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"Anger Transference" (Richard Sargent, 1954)

Posted 17 days ago
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Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili in German captivity, 1941. He was later killed in a prison camp.

Posted 17 days ago
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My grandparents first date at the local milkshake bar. Circa 1949, NSW Australia.

Posted 17 days ago
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A radiologist checks a miner's stomach for swallowed diamonds, Kimberley, South Africa, 1954

Posted 17 days ago
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Site of the execution of the Russian imperial family at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, photographed in 1919, one year after the murders.

Posted 18 days ago
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Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci, 1991.

Posted 18 days ago
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My grandfather holding my mom, 1971

Posted 18 days ago
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Hotel owner pouring acid into swimming pool while black patrons swim, St. Augustine, Florida 1964

Posted 18 days ago
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"Jesus did not choose non white apostles" Protest against Harold Perry, first openly African- American Catholic bishop 1966

Posted 18 days ago
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Empire State Building before the city grew skyscrapers, 1930s

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My dad looking dapper for school picture day. (late 1950s) He would have been 83-years-old today.

Posted 19 days ago
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1179 captured participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion stand trial for treason. Among those captured were 100 plantation owners, 67 landlords of apartment houses, 35 factory owners, 112 businessmen, 179 lived off unearned income, and 194 ex-soldiers of Batista (Cuba, 1962) .

Posted 19 days ago