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Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport

Ukrainian refugees board a train in Lviv, February 2022.
West Ukraine’s War Stories: A New Chapter?
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
American soldiers land near Algiers
Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942
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
UNR postcard (ca. 1918), Ukrainians face invading Russia. Caption: “Our enemies die like the dew in the sun and we brothers will rule in our turn.” From the author’s collection.
Ukrainian Independence: From Versailles 1 to Versailles 2
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.
Jamaican Independence
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
Actors in the Berezil troupe, 1922.
Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage
The National Crest of Transnistria.
Transnistria: The History Behind the Russian-backed Region
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Emergency servicemen and volunteers remove rubble and demine territory after Russian shelling, Kyiv, Oblast, 2022.
Ukrainian Architecture at War
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.
Ukraine in War and Revolution
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
A memorial to the Heaven’s Hundred in Kyiv. Serhii Kemsky’s photo is in black and white under the words Nebesna sotnia.
Heroes Never Die
Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.
Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Rus not Russia
members of the red cross during the 1918 flu pandemic
What Came Next?: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of COVID
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert
Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain
Mural in Guernica based on the Picasso painting. 
Guernica and the Horrors of Modern War
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.
These Machines Know Too Damn Much
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.
Episodes of Ambivalent Empire
The Benin Bronzes in the African Gallery at the British Museum.
LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.
Forces of Good and Evil
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
Cover of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts.
Falling for the Fall of Rome
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
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov
Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia
A 1991 cartoon from Edmund S. Valtman.
The Soviet Collapse
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war
The Bangladesh Liberation War
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Such a Disappointment
Kismet is a robot that can produce a range of human facial expressions.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
A photograph of Viola Desmond
Remembering Viola Desmond
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.
“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force
Letay Girmay, a resident of Hawzen.
The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray
Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai
The Suez Crisis (1956)
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.
The View from the Countryside
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance of their positions in the Nazi leadership.
The Nuremberg Judgment
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