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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

Photo of William Colby
Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA
This image depicts Ali, a Jesus-like figure in Alawite theology.
Alawites and the Fate of Syria
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.
The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony
The futuristic National Security Operations Center occupies a floor of the National Security Agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
October 23, 1983, a massive explosion ripped through the barracks of the battalion landing team (BLT) of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit at the Beirut International Airport.
Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon
Trayvon Martin was on the cover of People magazine in 2012.
Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.
Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War
Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, by Charles R. Geisst Philadelphia By Spencer Tyce Book Cover.
Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume
Coming to America to Contribute
Iranian postage stamp commemorating the shooting down of Iran Air 655 in 1988.
Viewpoint Iran: The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff
March on Washington
The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington
Euro coins.
European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860
"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport
William Shakespeare
The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found
Predator drone.
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones
Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam
Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord
The GOP elephant and the Democratic Party's donkey.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System
The Romanov Family
The Romanov Tercentenary: Commemoration, History, and Power
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis in March 2013.
Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea attend a working lunch in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 7, 2018.
Kim Jong-un and the “Madman Theory” of Diplomacy
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann Discovers LSD
The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan Book Cover.
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.
Fifty Years and Counting
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.
From Sea to Shining Sea
A rendering of the Grand Renaissance Dam.
Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam
This Cold War-era poster carries the slogan 'Chairman Mao is the great savior of the revolutionary peoples of the world' and an illustration of African freedom fighters reading a copy of Mao's little book of quotations.
A New World Order? Africa and China
soldiers patrolling in Iraq
The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later
2012 United States presidential election results map by county.svg
Blocking the Will of the Majority Is a Fundamental Feature of the U.S. Constitutional System
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.
Capturing a Moment
1996 suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing
Liu Bang, or Emperor Gaozu of Han
Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
Collier's 1921 Lincoln Abraham - cabinet meeting.jpg
Lincoln’s and Obama’s Teams of Non-Rivals
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681
Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Book Cover.
Hanoi Central
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.
How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly
President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.
Is It Only A Game?
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.
He Led His People Into the Desert
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.
What to Do About the Money?
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.
Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
The Works Progress Administration employed some Spanish-Americans from New Mexico, as seen here, to work in road gangs.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Logo of General Motors.svg
The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors