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

Imperial and Global Forum Logo
Best in History Online: Imperial & Global Forum
The flight of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922.
Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.
G-Men, Gays, and Government
Portion of DisasterHistory.org timeline.
Best in History Online: Disaster History
Jackie Robinson
Top Ten Origins: The World Series
This is the logo of the Heaven's Gate cult.
Gullible Americans?
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.
Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.
Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old
The Favorites of Emperor Honorius by John William Waterhouse depicts the emperor's court in the 5th century CE.
Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity
Artwork of the Battle of Chaldiran (1514).
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
The view of Dresden and the Elbe River from the very top of the Frauenkirche.
A Postcard from Dresden, Germany: Living in the Shadow of World War II
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with a sign announcing the 70th anniversary ceremony.
A Postcard from Hiroshima
A United States twenty-dollar bill.
Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing
Bombing Hiroshima
President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.
Executive Conservation
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
The glowing skyline of Singapore's Central Business District.
Singapore at Fifty
Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.
A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo
Courtesans such as Lilly Langtry (in this 1885 photograph) are claimed to have started utilizing underwear as tool of seduction.
Where’s that Sexy History Under There?
June 4, 2015 at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)
Remembering Tiananmen in the Umbrella Movement’s Wake: The Politics of Commemoration in Hong Kong, 2015
Philippine naval vessel, BRP Mangyan, and crew.
A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
France and Its Empire Since 1870 Second Edition Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky
Hot off the Presses: France and Its Empire Since 1870
August 1976 cover from Ms. Magazine.
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
a can of Spaghetti-Os
Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This image appeared in the New York Journal on April 20, 1898.
As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past
HyperCities Website Header with logo.
5/18/2015: Best in History Online: Hypercities
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.
On the Armenian Genocide
United States-Mexico border.
Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas
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
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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