4773
posts in
History

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

Loading

Mom as Elvira in San Diego - 1980s

Posted 19 days ago
Loading

A Fashionable Woman, c1890s.

Posted 19 days ago
Loading

German dentist Martin Hellinger stands as he is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for war crimes by a British military tribunal. He removed the dental gold of dead prisoners at a concentration camp. After his release, the West German government paid him 10,000 DM in compensation, 1946 .

Posted 19 days ago
Loading

A photograph taken of 11-year-old Florence "Sally" Horner several months after she was kidnapped by 51-year-old Frank La Salle. La Salle held Horner captive for a total of 21 months, New Jersey, 1948 .

Posted 20 days ago
Loading

The skirts were short and the hair was high in the 1960s

Posted 20 days ago
Loading

Cartoon depicting Uncle Sam entering Mexico in 1916 to punish Pancho Villa with Uncle Sam saying, "I've had about enough of this."

Posted 20 days ago
Loading

American soldiers meet an Armigero in 1944, Florence.

Posted 20 days ago
Loading

Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Winston Churchill’s birthday in Tehran, 30th November 1943

Posted 20 days ago
Loading

My Grandma *poking* fun with her Grandma, 1946

Posted 21 days ago
Loading

Toni Jo Henry, the only woman to die in Louisiana’s electric chair, heads to the Calcasieu Courthouse to be executed, her headscarf hid a freshly shaved head. November 28, 1942

Posted 21 days ago
Loading

Gary Sinise here wishing you all a Happy Halloween. Here I am with my childhood friends on Halloween from 1960 in Blue Island, Illinois

Posted 21 days ago
Loading

Messerschmitt Bf 110 German Fighter Bomber after being shot down, 10th October 1940, London, England.

Posted 21 days ago