20th Century

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Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert
Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain
Francisco Franco speaking to his naval forces in 1938
The Death of Franco
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.
The View from the Countryside
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
The Death of Franco
Martin Luther King, Jr., at Civil Right March on Washington
Exploring the Legacy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
doctor holding a COVID swab
Pandemics and Public Policy
nurses holding stretchers
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic vs. the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic
A slave owner holding a baby and a whip and a group of slaves
From Republicans to Democrats: The Changing Political Allegiance of Black Voters
Plague Doctor
Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present
Lynchburg Virginia Confederate Monument
Confederate Monuments: Why Take ‘Em Down? What Do We Put Up in Their Place?
glass vaccine vials with labels that read "vaccine"
You Might Feel a Pinch: Vaccination Laws in the Era of COVID-19
Alert soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate, during the Spartacist Uprising
Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
Breaking the Trust: Relation Tensions Between Iraq and the US
man looking out a window
The Creation of Student Loan Debt in the United States
sign that states - parental advisory explicit content
Fight For Your Right to Freedom of Expression
Free speech march at Ohio State University in the mid-20th century
Politics and Protest on College Campuses
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
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill
By Invitation Only
European Union flag
The EU: Past, Present, and Future
Cartoon - Bosses of the Senate by Joseph Keppler
Voting Restrictions in a “Democratic” United States
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
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
First Lady Nancy Reagan expresses her feelings about drugs while riding horses with her husband, President Ronald Reagan.
The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later