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

Three soldiers at an observation station on the Western Front in 1918.
The Long Legacy of World War I
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.
From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ.
Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth
We Are Our Mountains (Tatik u Papik) Monument, Stepanakert.
A Postcard from Nagorno-Karabakh
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.
Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture
Portrait of Martin Luther
Martin Luther and the Reformation
Interstate 80 near Berkeley, CA.
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure
Soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe
1960s hippies dancing at a festival.
The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love
Rio's Ipanema Beach
A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future
The BBC World Service podcast Witness brings listeners daily podcast shorts on key events in history, described first-hand by the individuals who lived through them.
Best in History Online: BBC's Witness Podcast
This is the third Strasbourg astronomical clock which is located in the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was built in 1843, the first clock was built 1352-1354.
Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
Under Attlee's direction, the Labour Party's position on foreign affairs in the 1930s was somewhat inconsistent. A believer in the "collective security" represented by the League of Nations, Attlee opposed rearmament even as he pushed for firmer measures against Nazi aggression.
A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing
Logo for "Canada 150".
Canada 150: Coming Home
A 2016 street mural in Lithuania depicting the 'fraternal kiss.'
Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview
Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)
The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War
Greek amphora, or jug, from c. 540 BCE showing two hoplite phalanxes engaged in combat. Hoplites were the heavy infantry who formed the backbone of most Greek armies in the Classical Age.
A Fragmented History of Ancient Generalship
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin
At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry
scene from the video game Valiant Hearts, The Great War
Top Ten Origins: Historically Themed Video Games
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman-Hughes in 1972.
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.
The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”
Captured soldiers along the march with their hands tied behind their backs
The Bataan Death March
Refugees eating lunch outside the barracks.
Waiting in Limbo: Life as a Refugee in Serbia
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva
A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”
Libertad Protester
The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State
Happy 2nd Lieutenant William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Soviet Army, shown in front of sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany, 1945.
Top Ten Origins: The Best Moments in U.S.-Russian Relations
Cover image of ibook - ruins in the Middle East
Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol
Six Days That Shook The World
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954
The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.
Top Ten Origins: Flu
Refugees at the Macedonian border in 2015.
The Question of Refugees: Past and Present
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.
A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter
Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.
Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People
Yale students leaving class in the 1950s.
From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"
Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918
Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The New Edition
Best in History Online: The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
President Woodrow Wilson with his wife, Edith, in June 1920.
Making it into the White House
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.
A Postcard from Solovki
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913.
The First Time Women Marched on Washington
Crowds watching Obaysch.
What's All Happening at the Zoo?
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.
The Space In Between
The ship Ile de Sein laying fiber-optic cable off the west coast of Canada, 2007.
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.
At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"
Aerial view of Pearl Harbor, October 1941
Pearl Harbor
A 2016 protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock