In the mid-20th century, the Civil Rights Movement sparked a decisive transformation in the United States, aimed at dismantling the deep-rooted discrimination against African Americans that persisted since the end of the Civil War.
While prominent figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks are often associated with the...
New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was marked by serious challenges to everyday life—graffiti-covered subways, rampant vandalism, piles of uncollected garbage, and high crime rates.
Noise, drugs, and other social issues added to the city’s struggles, making the streets chaotic and unpredictable.
Sidewalks were often littered with dog waste,...
In 1939, photographer Dorothea Lange passed through Oregon’s Willamette Valley, documenting life during the Great Depression.
While traveling, she paused to observe a string bean harvest, where a large influx of temporary workers had arrived to pick crops for a few weeks in August.
Many of these workers were migrants from...
The 1980s saw the AIDS epidemic surge to catastrophic levels, leaving communities devastated and countless lives hanging in the balance.
Across the U.S. and beyond, people were dying at an alarming rate, while others were gripped by fear of a mysterious disease they barely understood but believed could soon sweep...
During the Second World War, Londoners of all classes flocked to Underground platforms to keep themselves safe from the destruction that was being wrought above the ground by the German bombers.
The Blitz refers to the strategic bombing campaign conducted...
Armored vehicles sit in storage at a U.S. facility. 1946.
When World War II ended in 1945, the industrial war machine did not stop overnight. Estimates of the value of...
From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany.
After Germany’s annexation of Austria in March 1938,...
Lieutenant Bill Robertson and Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko, Germany, 1945.
These iconic photographs were taken the day Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany, marking...
On September 2, 1945, Japanese representatives signed the official Instrument of Surrender, prepared by the War Department and approved by President Harry S. Truman. It set out in eight...
On 9 September 1942, though, something happened that had never happened before: an enemy plane bombed the contiguous United States. There had been rumors of bombers over Los Angeles...
The rock group Phonolog.
These interesting pictures, taken by photographer Harf Zimmermann, revolve around Hufelandstraße, a bustling neighborhood street in...