Citizens of Moscow listen to a historic radio announcement, saying that German forces invaded at 4 AM that morning and that the war started. 30% of male population will perish in the next 4 years (including 90% of men born in 1923)…June 22th, 1941

Stalin in Bailov Prison, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 1910

Finnish soldiers in NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) gear, 1961

In Chicago in 1954, owners lined up with their dogs in order to receive vaccines that had been ordered by the state in response to a rabies outbreak. Some 45,000 received shots

The discovery of an ancient Maya statue deep within the jungles of Honduras, 1885

German stormtroopers going over the top, circa 1916

An American soldier gives cigarettes to a few of the more than 30,000 liberated concentration camp inmates at Dachau on April 29, 1945. GIs had a hard time believing Germans who protested they did not know about the camps. Dachau was just ten miles from Munich

A sinking Japanese destroyer, seen through the periscope of the USS Nautilus, 1942

Marine First Lieutenant Hart H. Spiegal of Topeka, Kansas, uses sign language as he tries to strike up a conversation with two tiny Japanese soldiers captured on Okinawa. The boy on the left claims he is “18” while his companion boasts “20” years. 1945

Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pa 1895

Two “Cop Killers” photographed after interrogations, 1920s

Tsar Nicholas II and his cousin, King George V, in 1904 when Nicholas was on a state visit to England

A man buying cigarettes from his hospital bed, 1950s

A race education class at a school for German girls, 1943

100 years ago—on May 31 and June 1, 1921—the Tulsa massacre occurred on “Black Wall Street,” the wealthiest Black community in the United States at the time.⁣⁣

PFC Richie smells the perfume of his girlfriend back home in Jay, Oklahoma, as he opens her letter in Vietnam, 1966.