Milestones

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The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD, Oil on Canvas, Robert Hubert, 1785. In the Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux; Le Havre, France.
The Great Fire of Rome
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
The Berlin Airlift
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
The South Korean flag in Seoul, South Korea.
The Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun and the Patterns of South Korean Politics
The Statue of Liberty during the June 10, 2021 solar eclipse.
Solar Eclipses in American History
Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922
The Long End of the Ottoman Empire
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Count Gaston aboard his Jeantaud electric, 1899.
The Jeantaud Electric Car Land Speed Record
Joel Roberts Poinsett on a background of poinsettias.
Poinsettia Day, the Monroe Doctrine, and U.S.-Mexican Relations
The Beatles, upon their arrival at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on February 7,1964.
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
Nazis at Marienplatz in Munich during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and Weimar’s Resolve
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.
The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo
The angel Moroni delivering the golden plates containing the Book of Mormon to Joesph Smith Jr.
Joseph Smith Discovers the Gold Plates
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.
Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor
Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland points out North Korean position to his machine gun crew, 1950.
Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.
The Marshall Plan
A barricade in central Berlin during the March 1848 uprising.
March 1848: The German Revolutions
A refrigerator advertisement in The Ladies Home Journal, 1948.
The Feminine Mystique
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
The 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the Old IRA, pictured during the early 1920s.
100 Years of Irish Independence and Division
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.
The Munich Olympic Massacre
Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.
A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring