Milestones

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migrants walking down a road
Defining Refugees: 1921 and 1951
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942
Operation Barbarossa
The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: Seventy Years of China’s Occupation of Tibet
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics
Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
General Idi Amin in August, 1973.
Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971
Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
The Death of Franco
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.
Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.
The Nineteenth Amendment
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.
Srebrenica and its Memory
US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., signing the UN Charter on 26 June 1945. President Truman stands by at left (UN Photo/Yould).
The Signing of the United Nations Charter
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Kent State after Fifty Years
Image reading "there is no news tonight"
“No News Day” at the BBC
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War
Graffiti reading "Ireland a Nation, Irish and Free"
The Provisional Irish Republican Army
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty Fight
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth