Historical events Archive
This photo depicting opium smoking was posed in a studio for a stereoview card, circa 1900.
Medical evacuation, WW2 style: Moroccans serving with the Free French during the campaign in Italy, 1943-44, use supply mules to transport their wounded to forward dressing stations. The Moroccans …
Inquisitions (AD1300-1400s) were the church’s effort to eradicate Christian Cathar heresy. They went around from town to town finding people they believed were practicing Cathar version of Christianity and …
Hiroshima, directly after the fog cleared. Catholic Church in foreground, 1945
Robert Capa: Paris, 26 August 1944
Religious rituals in America are not often public spectacles. A key exception was the tradition of river baptisms that flourished in the South and Midwest between 1880 and 1930. …
Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone
Soldiers of the US Army share a drink with civilians during the liberation of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1945.
Calle Fortaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico c1938
Civil rights protest, Va., 1960
