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

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A German Waffen-SS soldier that was captured by US soldiers during the Normandy campaign, 1944 (2276x2600)

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"Loose Lips" sign at US Atomic Test Site 1952

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A girl gets married, July 22nd, 1941. The girl next door, Anne Frank, is nearby watching. It is the only time Anne Frank has been captured on film.

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Robert McGee was 14 years old when he was scalped by Kiowa warriors at the Walnut Creek Massacre of 1864. He worked as a sideshow attraction for many years after

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1930, England, a man advocates for a change in classic men's fashion.

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Young Japanese Couple Taking a Mirror Selfie, the 1920s.

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Photo of the charred corpse of a prisoner who attempted to escape a burning barn, which had been set on fire by the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, Germany, April 1945 (1101x1391)

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Nazi propaganda for school. (1935)

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Funeral of a girl and child pallbearers - c. 1900s

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Bruce Larsen, artist and sculptor, confronting and flipping off a Ku Klux Klan member at an Alabama rally in 1986. "...I got out and confronted them, my girlfriend stood up and took this photo through the sunroof. These are my political views. This is America and it is for everybody."

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Pierre Laval, former Prime Minister of the Vichy French government, passionately pleads his case while on trial for treason at the Palais de Justice in Paris, France. August 1945. Laval was found guilty and executed in October

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The Dining Room at Spocott. My family has owned the home and surrounding property since the 1600s.

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