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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

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”
A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
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
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.
A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past
An abandoned building in Chernobyl
A Postcard from Chernobyl
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013
At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial
The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”
A container ship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus
Tilden illustration - a hand on another hand that is on a gun on a table with papers
Top Ten Origins: Other “Unprecedented” Elections in American History
Bruce Lee
The Original Street Fighting Man
The Mars explorer Curiosity's view back at its own tracks after crossing a sand dune in 2014.
Mariner 9: Opening The Martian Frontier
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution
Church and belltower at Usol’e.
A Postcard from the Ural Mountains
Chinese Banknotes.
The United States, China, and the Money Question
Mata Hari (1876-1917).
Top Ten Origins: Spies, Lies, and Moles: Oh My!
Scene from the 11th century Bayeaux Tapestry depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers.
The Norman Conquest of England, 1066
the Bowery Boys logo
Best in History Online: The Bowery Boys Podcast
The Terra Cotta Warriors: Xi’an’s most famous attraction
A Postcard from Xi’an: Balancing Past and Future
Color bars in a television test pattern.
Media and Politics in the Age of Trump
Margaret Gorman, winner of the first Miss America Pageant in 1922.
Beauty Pageants and American Politics
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.
Star Trek
Refugee tents in Piraeus port.
A Postcard from a Piraeus Refugee Camp
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War
Crimea: A General Introduction
Indian troops in Burma, 1944.
A Forgotten Theater of War
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.
Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks