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The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
A Brief History of Alcoholics Anonymous

From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990
Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution
Abraham Lincoln
Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985
Rough Weather Ahead
This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."
The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War
Book cover of Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
3/30/2015: Hot off the Presses: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
The American Historical Association Logo
3/26/2015: Best in History Online: The American Historical Association
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Mother of Rock and Roll
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation
Top Ten Origins: Vaccination
lab tech with vaccine
Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
Harry Beck’s London Underground Railway map, designed in 1931 and released to the public in 1933.
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Harlem, Summer 1964.
From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013
A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine
Escobar: Paradise Lost, directed by Andrea Di Stefano
2/6/2015: At the Movies: Escobar
Cartoon by Ali Delim in honor of 20th anniversary of Said Mekbel’s killing. The cartoon reads: “Said Mekbel in Heaven for journalists. Here it is not the quills that are missing.” (Cartoon used with permission)
1/30/2015: The Dangers of Being a Humorist: Charlie Hebdo Is Not Alone
Bande dessinée par Ali Delim pour marquer la vingtième anniversaire de la mort de Saïd Mekbel
1/30/2015: Les dangers d'être humoriste: Charlie Hebdo n’est pas le seul
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.
"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
A Sherman tank enters Fort Santiago
The Battle for Manila
Lake Oroville, California, 2014.
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
The signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, as represented in a nineteenth-century engraving
The Magna Carta and Its Legacy
Clios Current Blog Header With spread out papers and a coffee cup.
1/23/2015: Best in History Online: Clio’s Current
Amish schoolhouse in 1941 Pennsylvania.
1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987
The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back
Genoa Park along the west bank of the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio, United States
12/29/2014: Cities of the Future
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989
What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan
Black and white image of an empty classroom
12/24/2014: Teaching Race in the Classroom
Photograph of wounded American soldiers during the Korean War.
12/23/2014: Remembering the Korean War
CIA Logo
12/22/2014: Senate Report on the CIA and Torture
Ak Saray.
Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics
Jean Yocum.
Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel
12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars
The Appendix Website Logo
12/8/2014: Best in History Online: The Appendix
Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814
The War We Refuse to Remember
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank
12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury
Book Cover for Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 By: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,
12/1/2014: Hot off the Presses: Creoles and Borders
Cover of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte.
…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance
BackStory Website Logo
11/20/2014: Best in History Online: BackStory
Book Cover of Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century By: Steven Conn
Hot off the Presses: Americans vs. the City
A China Dream publicity poster.
China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”
Official ISIS flag
11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)
the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954
11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited
"Mauerspecht" [Wall Pecker] 1989
“Remember, Remember the 9th of November”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Cover of The Baron's Cloak by William Sunderland.
An Imperial Person
Marina Silva (PSB)
10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections
A sign that reads, "Keep Govment out of Medicade Dammit!"
An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History
Book Cover of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 By: Bruno Cabanes
10/13/2014: Hot off the Presses: War and Humanitarianism