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Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.
Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks
photo of Dan Snow
Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit
Flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army.
Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.
"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation
Mexican flag in a square
A Postcard from Mexico City
soldiers in Vietnam
Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam
WNYU 89.1
Best in History Online: WNYU News
Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces
Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram.
The Hajj and Europe
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill
By Invitation Only
President James A. Garfield
The Assassination of President Garfield
A woman walks by revolutionary graffiti in Cairo.
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England
Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor
Joseph Stalin
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin
Haile Selassie in 1942
Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary
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Best in History Online: The History Chicks
A bus that has been blown up by terrorists
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Polin Museum
A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots
Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl
Abubakar Shekau with other Boko Haram fighters.
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
cover of History Today featuring article Napoleon Life after Death
Best in History Online: History Today
Demonstrators at the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. demand an end to police violence, August 28, 1963
Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
A traditional glass of Weissbier
Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
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Best in History Online: History Respawned
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon
Ten Terrorists Attacks in History
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain
Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death
Scene in Ukraine
Ukraine, In a Nutshell
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Best in History Online: Public History Commons
NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.
Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
The famously burly W.G. Grace was one of Britain's most famous cricket players who stood out from the crowd with both his imposing career and his imposing facial hair.
A Long History of Close Shaves
Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek.
Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
wind turbines
Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?
cover of The History Teacher - May 2021 Issue
Best in History Online: The History Teacher
Campaign poster for the Good Friday Agreement.
Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.
Top Ten Origins: Dams
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47
Baseball Without Borders
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866
Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later
cover of The American Historian
Best in History Online: The American Historian
cracks in the ground due to drought
Paris, and Existential Global Challenges
artwork entitled Can You Pass the Acid Test
The Acid Tests
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.
Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist