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Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.
Who are the Taliban?
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.
The Dawes Act
pile of syringes
The Global War on Drugs
Motorcycles lined up on Main St. in Sturgis, South Dakota, 2014.
“Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.
The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes
A 1991 cartoon from Edmund S. Valtman.
The Soviet Collapse
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Such a Disappointment
Two pictures of Tom Torlino, a member of the Navajo Nation.
Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now
A protestor in London holds a sign with an excerpt from the poem 'The New Colossus.'
Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.
Native Americans in Urban Places
Gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos raise their fists.
We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History
A rainbow version of the Ohio City neighborhood flag.
Gay is Good for Business: LGBTQ Rights and the Economic Development of America’s Cities and Suburbs
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on
Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
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
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
The flags or seals of three central banks.
Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks
Emancipation Memorial Statue
Emancipation by What Means?
Black Women's Rights Leaders
Prologued: Women and the Vote
Donald Trump and Joe Biden
Election 2020: Insights from History
Martin Luther King, Jr., at Civil Right March on Washington
Exploring the Legacy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
doctor holding a COVID swab
Pandemics and Public Policy