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

U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon
Ten Terrorists Attacks in History
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain
Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death
Scene in Ukraine
Ukraine, In a Nutshell
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NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.
Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
The famously burly W.G. Grace was one of Britain's most famous cricket players who stood out from the crowd with both his imposing career and his imposing facial hair.
A Long History of Close Shaves
Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek.
Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
wind turbines
Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?
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Campaign poster for the Good Friday Agreement.
Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.
Top Ten Origins: Dams
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47
Baseball Without Borders
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866
Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later
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cracks in the ground due to drought
Paris, and Existential Global Challenges
artwork entitled Can You Pass the Acid Test
The Acid Tests
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.
Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist
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The flight of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922.
Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.
G-Men, Gays, and Government
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Jackie Robinson
Top Ten Origins: The World Series
This is the logo of the Heaven's Gate cult.
Gullible Americans?
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.
Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.
Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old
The Favorites of Emperor Honorius by John William Waterhouse depicts the emperor's court in the 5th century CE.
Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity
Artwork of the Battle of Chaldiran (1514).
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
The view of Dresden and the Elbe River from the very top of the Frauenkirche.
A Postcard from Dresden, Germany: Living in the Shadow of World War II
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with a sign announcing the 70th anniversary ceremony.
A Postcard from Hiroshima
A United States twenty-dollar bill.
Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing
Bombing Hiroshima
President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.
Executive Conservation
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
The glowing skyline of Singapore's Central Business District.
Singapore at Fifty
Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.
A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo
Courtesans such as Lilly Langtry (in this 1885 photograph) are claimed to have started utilizing underwear as tool of seduction.
Where’s that Sexy History Under There?
June 4, 2015 at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)
Remembering Tiananmen in the Umbrella Movement’s Wake: The Politics of Commemoration in Hong Kong, 2015
Philippine naval vessel, BRP Mangyan, and crew.
A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
France and Its Empire Since 1870 Second Edition Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky
Hot off the Presses: France and Its Empire Since 1870