Category: History

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-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.

Joseph Kittinger jumping from his balloon up 102,000 feet in August 16, 1960

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.

The grave of Gene Simmers, United States soldier and Vietnam veteran, who passed away in 2022

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.

Queenie in training to become a Mercy dog during WW1. The dogs went out after large battles, where they would seek out wounded soldiers, they carried first-aid supplies that could then be used by wounded soldiers, and comforted dying soldiers who were mortally wounded.

A young Joseph Stalin (right) stands over the body of his 22yr old wife, Kato Svanidze. They had only just welcomed their first son.”This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.” 1907

The American Look in 1945 according to the department store, Lord & Taylor

The Last Known Tasmanian Tiger (1933)

Mother Searching for Her Son among Returning POWs, Friedland, Germany, Oct. 1955

Japanese Samurai, 1866. Photograph by Felice Beato