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Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.
Russia’s Trial by Fire
illustration of people around a fire ring
The Causes and Costs of Barrenness
President Richard Nixon
Republican Character
An image of Kuwait’s oil fields after they were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the First Gulf War
Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies
KKK Rally
From Dixie to the Third Reich
Dr. Aleš Hrdlička
“No law can change our blood"
Queen Elizabeth I in Parliament
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.
From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
“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
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
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
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
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”
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol
Six Days That Shook The World
Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.
Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People
President Woodrow Wilson with his wife, Edith, in June 1920.
Making it into the White House
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 image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”
Bruce Lee
The Original Street Fighting Man
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
soldiers in Vietnam
Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill
By Invitation Only
Joseph Stalin
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin