History images

If the Civil War’s on your to-study list, these books will help you dig into the complicated, bloody conflict that continues to inform American consciousness today.

In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

There’s a camaraderie amongst circus performers. Not only do you have the same job, but you’re on the road together for months out of the year.

Social History, Politics, Asia, The Partition of India and Pakistan, pic: 1947, Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp

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What is it about color that gives us a more broad understanding of the past? Is it simply the added depth that it brings to the photo?

World War 1 Conspiracy Trench Warfare

Friday 1 July 2016 marked the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, the biggest conflict seen on the Western Front during World War I. Here are some of the most arresting photos from the war. Contains graphic images.

Feeding Cats in an Ancient Egyptian temple Servants feeding cats in an ancient Egyptian temple, (gouache on paper). Illustration by Angus McBride (British, 1931-2007).

The good folk at Wikipedia set today in 312 as the moment when Constantine, later called the Great, purported to have a vision of a cross in the sky and