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1960s hippies dancing at a festival.

The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love

Portrait of Martin Luther

Martin Luther and the Reformation

1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History

We Are Our Mountains (Tatik u Papik) Monument, Stepanakert.

A Postcard from Nagorno-Karabakh

"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

Iceberg, St. Lunaire.

A Postcard from Newfoundland

Refugees crowded emergency trains leaving to India or Pakistan c. 1947-1953

India-Pakistan Partition

Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)

Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds

This painting, which dates from 1859, reimagines the toppling of the equestrian statue of George III in New York City. Erected in 1770, the statue featured the regent garbed in Roman military regalia on horseback, in the fashion of Marcus Aurelius. It is doubtful that Native Americans, women and children were in attendance at this episode of iconoclasm by the Sons of Liberty.

Ten Memorable Monument Takedowns in History

Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.

Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain

Best in History Online: Sexing History Podcast

Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779

The Execution of Louis XVI

American Flag with 15 stars

Best in History Online: The Washington Post's "Made By History"

A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

Views of the White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece.

A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece

W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.

Living in History: Stalingrad at 75

Black Panther

Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story

Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Melvyn Bragg

Best in History Online: BBC's In Our Time

A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb

Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape

Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

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