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An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies.

November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?

Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

Monte Albán

Una Postal de Oaxaca, México

Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

man with a gun in a holster

Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation

A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.

International Women's Day

Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke

At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots

Pullman Strike illustration

Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes

Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).

Top Ten Origins: World War II Films

Greek troops with a machine gun during the war

The Greco-Turkish War

A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I

Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals

book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads

A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.

Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies

"Gay Liberation" by George Segal

Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution

Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)

The Hamilton-Burr Duel

2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.

The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey

Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.

Fly Me to the Moon

Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

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