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Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.
The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo

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
This is 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
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.
Native Americans in Urban Places
migrants walking down a road
Defining Refugees: 1921 and 1951
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
Cover of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson.
The Soviet-German Exchange: Beyond Ideology and Opportunism
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.
The Legacy of Luther
U.S. Marines play baseball in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942
Operation Barbarossa
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.
Africa's Medical History Revealed
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
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
The caryatids of the Erechtheum at the Acropolis.
Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds
Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.
Science Beseiged
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
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics
Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896
Attica
A History of Athens Beyond Decline
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
A nuclear power plant located on the Rhine at night.
The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee
Recovering the History of the French Far-Right
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
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
A protestor in Minsk watches the August 2020 demonstrations.
History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.
The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath