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A bus that has been blown up by terrorists
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe
Scene in Ukraine
Ukraine, In a Nutshell
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
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47
Baseball Without Borders
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 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
The Favorites of Emperor Honorius by John William Waterhouse depicts the emperor's court in the 5th century CE.
Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity
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
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?
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990
Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985
Rough Weather Ahead
lab tech with vaccine
Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
Harry Beck’s London Underground Railway map, designed in 1931 and released to the public in 1933.
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.
"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987
The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back
Cover of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte.
…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance
Cover of The Baron's Cloak by William Sunderland.
An Imperial Person
Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field
Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?
Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein
There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell
Rome's Wondrous Rivers
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?