Survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, poses 2 years after the bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, 1947
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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Children pledging allegiance to the American flag at San Francisco’s Raphael Weill Elementary School in 1942. Those whose families were of Japanese ancestry were sent to internment camps.
These kids, hand over heart, mouths open mid verse, earnest as only children can be, are performing one of the most American rituals imaginable. The Pledge of Allegiance. A declaration of loyalty and belonging. And for some of them, this moment sits just days, maybe weeks, before the United States government would decide that their loyalty was irrelevant. That their Americanness was conditional. That the blood running through their veins disqualified them from the very flag they are saluting.
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Yang Kyoungjong, the only known soldier to have fought on three sides of a war, 1944
20 Fascinating Photos Collected From History
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
Future US President Theodore Roosevelt as a North Dakota deputy sheriff, holding 3 boat thieves he captured at gunpoint, 1886. Roosevelt was only 28 years old at the time.
5 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
A Civil Rights Protester Facing Police Dogs (1960s)
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich before signing the agreement on the transfer of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to the Third Reich, September 29, 1938.
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
5-year-old after day’s work, was tired and refused to be photographed, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911. Photo by Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee.
5 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
Joseph Kittinger jumping from his balloon up 102,000 feet in August 16, 1960
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The Beatles trip to India ended badly because the Maharishi wanted the band to deposit up to 25% of their next album’s profits in his Swiss bank account as a tithe.
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The grave of Gene Simmers, United States soldier and Vietnam veteran, who passed away in 2022
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What was it like for civilians during the Siege of Leningrad?
Winter is coming. It always comes to Leningrad, fierce and relentless, but in September 1941 it arrives like an executioner. The city is ringed by German and Finnish armies—almost three million souls trapped inside what will become a vast, frozen prison. The siege is not just a military campaign. It’s a slow-motion catastrophe, a war waged against hope itself.
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