Connecting History

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The original Star-Spangled Banner is on view at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
Grace Wisher: The Black Girl Who Helped Stitch the Star-Spangled Banner
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.
The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine
Zaporizhians by Józef Brandt, unknown date.
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
Ukrainian refugees board a train in Lviv, February 2022.
West Ukraine’s War Stories: A New Chapter?
American soldiers land near Algiers
Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942
UNR postcard (ca. 1918), Ukrainians face invading Russia. Caption: “Our enemies die like the dew in the sun and we brothers will rule in our turn.” From the author’s collection.
Ukrainian Independence: From Versailles 1 to Versailles 2
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
Actors in the Berezil troupe, 1922.
Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage
Emergency servicemen and volunteers remove rubble and demine territory after Russian shelling, Kyiv, Oblast, 2022.
Ukrainian Architecture at War
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.
Ukraine in War and Revolution
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
A memorial to the Heaven’s Hundred in Kyiv. Serhii Kemsky’s photo is in black and white under the words Nebesna sotnia.
Heroes Never Die
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Rus not Russia
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on
Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.
The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath
U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)
Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces
Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing
Port of Buenos Aires
Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19