Category: History

Parisians on the first Bastille Day under Nazi occupation, in 1940.

German soldiers flee a gas attack in Flanders, Belgium, in September of 1917

Chemical weapons were a part of the arsenal of World War I armies from the beginning, ranging from irritating tear gases to painful mustard gas, to lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine

Anti-American poster, USSR, 1960

Mike Tyson and his trainer, Cus D’Amato, before his first professional fight

Winston Churchill delivering his “Blood, toil, tears and sweat” speech shortly after becoming British Prime Minister, London, 1940

Smog testing with human subjects, 1956

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.

Yang Kyoungjong, the only known soldier to have fought on three sides of a war, 1944

Ty Cobb “sliding” into home – 1920

A Civil Rights Protester Facing Police Dogs (1960s)