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Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.
The Birth and Death of USAID

Image reading "there is no news tonight"
“No News Day” at the BBC
The Course of Empire: Destruction, Painted by Thomas Cole, depicts a highly dramatic, catastrophic image of Rome's end.
Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.
A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.
A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana
Sculpture of Donald Trump ripping up the Paris climate agreement.
Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
Chinese manufactured goods, like this jar from the Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items.
Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.
A Postcard from Leith, Scotland
A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration.
The Fate of the Kurds
A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon.
Medieval Public Relations Battles
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
Donald Trump with words Sanctions are Coming
A Century of Sanctions
Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
Sobaek Mountain
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea
Palais de Beaulieu
The Theological Third Way in Latin America
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
"Where do we go from here?," a 1920 cartoon depicting the League of Nations Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty Fight
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.
A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family
Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America
Inside the National Veteran's Museum and Memorial - The NVMM's exhibits chronicle the stages of a veteran's experience.
The National Veterans Museum and Memorial
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A young Paraguayan boy receives a vaccination during the 2014 'Vaccination Week In The Americas.'
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.
At the Movies: Downton Abbey
One of Havana's plazas without a church.
A Postcard From Havana, Cuba
Pedro Albizu Campos, noted anti-imperialist, addressing a crowd in 1936
Reframing the American Empire
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
Men and women in Karnataka, India, voting in 2009 General Election.
Right-Wing Politics in India
An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets Domesticated the West
Over one million people participated in anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong in June 2019.
Hong Kong in Protest
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]
Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944
The Liberation of Paris
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