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The Beatles, upon their arrival at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on February 7,1964.
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”

In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.
Fly Me to the Moon
2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.
The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)
The Hamilton-Burr Duel
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
"Gay Liberation" by George Segal
Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies
A celebration of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Sudan in Crisis
book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I
Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall
Modern China and Its Institutions
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war
The Greco-Turkish War
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films
Pullman Strike illustration
Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes
illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
Thousands of protesters in Yemen's capital city, Sana'a, in 2011.
Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke
At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
Castilian ambassadors attempt to ally themselves with Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada.
The Iberian Realm of Islam
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
Graffiti in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now
A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.
International Women's Day
President Donald J. Trump addressing the 72nd Session of the United Nations.
Human Rights at a Crossroads
This postcard depicts a recreation of the Arbella, the ship that carried John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans to present-day Massachusetts.
From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth
man with a gun in a holster
Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation
protests by the Yellow Vest movement
France at the Barricades, 1934
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
a rocket being launched in the Middle East
War and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Today & Yesterday
Monte Albán
A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.
Built Upon Bounty
Armenian protesters in April 2018.
Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943
The Nature of World War II
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' declaration from Flag Day 1919 that forbade membership in the organization to anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other organizations perceived as unpatriotic.
Sanitizing American Tradition
On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies.
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"
Russia’s Lost Empire
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
H.G. Wells’s novel, War of the Worlds, described hissing, tentacled, tripodal invaders from Mars.
Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
Clarence Thomas
Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees
A 2017 protest march in San Francisco calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
American Presidential Scandals
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.
The Old Informing the New
The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá.
A Postcard From Chichén Itzá
The logo for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Genocide and Justice in Rwanda
More than just peace and love, 1968 was a global clash against political and business establishments.
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.
"Lone Wolves" No More