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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

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
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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
photo of Dan Snow
Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit
Flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army.
Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.
"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation
Mexican flag in a square
A Postcard from Mexico City
soldiers in Vietnam
Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam
WNYU 89.1
Best in History Online: WNYU News
Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces
Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram.
The Hajj and Europe
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill
By Invitation Only
President James A. Garfield
The Assassination of President Garfield
A woman walks by revolutionary graffiti in Cairo.
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England
Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor
Joseph Stalin
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin
Haile Selassie in 1942
Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary
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Best in History Online: The History Chicks
A bus that has been blown up by terrorists
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Polin Museum
A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots
Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl
Abubakar Shekau with other Boko Haram fighters.
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
cover of History Today featuring article Napoleon Life after Death
Best in History Online: History Today
Demonstrators at the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. demand an end to police violence, August 28, 1963
Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
A traditional glass of Weissbier
Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
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Best in History Online: History Respawned
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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Best in History Online: Public History Commons
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