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Signing the UN Charter
A photograph showing the signing of the United Nations Charter on 26 June 1945 at the San Francisco Conference.
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UN Headquarters, New York
The headquarters of the United Nations, Turtle Island, New York.
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Map of the Cradles of Early Civilization & Society - The First Centers of Agriculture, Complex Society & States
The pathways toward early civilization and complex society between c. 12,000 and 1000 BCE were neither uniform nor linear. After the end of the last Ice Age, climatic and environmental change encouraged communities in different parts of the...
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Map of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s Invasion of USSR - World War II’s decisive 1941 campaign in the East
Operation Barbarossa (22 June–December 1941) was the codename for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War (1939–1945). Launched by Adolf Hitler (rule 1933–1945), it was not only a military campaign but also...
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The Massacre at New Orleans
The massacre at New Orleans, tempera painting by Thomas Nast, 1867. Nast depicts here President Andrew Johnson adorned in kingly dress as the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 unfolds around him, wherein White rioters, many of whom were ex-Confederates...
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President Andrew Johnson
Portrait of President Andrew Johnson, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1865. After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in the spring of 1865, Andrew Johnson, his vice president, assumed the office. Although Johnson had made the punishment...
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Selling a Freedman's Labour - Slavery by Another Name
Selling a freedman to pay his fine, at Monticello, Florida, wood engraving from a sketch by James E. Taylor, 1867. Depicted here is a free Black man in postbellum Florida, wrists tied in leather and stood atop an auction block, whose labour...
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The Union as It Was
The Union as it was, wood engraving by Thomas Nast, 1874. Illustrated here by Thomas Nast are two clasping figures, members of White supremacist paramilitary organizations, standing astride a shield depicting a terrorized Black family in...
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Churchill & Roosevelt, Casablanca, 1943
A photograph of the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) talking ot the press at the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War...
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Map of the World of Homer’s Iliad, c. 1200 BCE - The Aegean Bronze Age and the Epic World Around Troy
The key places, peoples, and commanders associated with Homer’s Iliad form a poetic geography of the Late Bronze Age Aegean and western Anatolia. Although the epic was probably composed in the 8th century BCE, it is set in the legendary final...
