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A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.

Top Ten Origins: Flu

Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

Captured soldiers along the march with their hands tied behind their backs

The Bataan Death March

Happy 2nd Lieutenant William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Soviet Army, shown in front of sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany, 1945.

Top Ten Origins: The Best Moments in U.S.-Russian Relations

Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva

A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan

George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991

The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”

Refugees eating lunch outside the barracks.

Waiting in Limbo: Life as a Refugee in Serbia

scene from the video game Valiant Hearts, The Great War

Top Ten Origins: Historically Themed Video Games

LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin

At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry

Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)

The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War

Canada 150: Coming Home

Soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad

Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe

The BBC World Service podcast Witness brings listeners daily podcast shorts on key events in history, described first-hand by the individuals who lived through them.

Best in History Online: BBC's Witness Podcast

Rio's Ipanema Beach

A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future

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

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