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

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Young girl with a portrait of George Washington, daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes ca. 1850 (464×600)

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My granny..

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With Uncle Sam's support, being a killer is no problem! USSR 1982

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Dr Ribeiro, a Goan Physician riding his Zebra on the streets of Nairobi in the early 1900's, he played a key role in containing the plague outbreaks in 1905 and 1906

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Robert and Georgina Ellis on their wartime wedding day, 1942. Her suit was made from bleached and dyed dusters. He was killed in Italy six days before VE Day.

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Allied soldiers mock Adolf Hitler on his famous balcony at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin after the conclusion of the war in Europe on July 6, 1945.

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A young lady in her dorm room at the University of Georgia in the late 1980s

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"What were you doing on 9/11?!" (Chappate, 2001)

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U.S. Marines battle for control of a ridge near Naha, Okinawa, in May 1945.

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my dad made sure I never had to miss out on frilly dresses or recitals despite growing up without a mom, 1994

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My grandparents on a date in the 1940s in Long Beach, CA

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Spanish legionnaires holding up decapitated Moroccan heads (1922)

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