May
7
Vintage Photos of Everyday Life in the 1950s New York
These vintage photographs capture a timeless energy and diversity that is charac…
Author: RHP
May
3
Political Commissar Alexey Yeremenko Leads His Men Into Combat: He Was Killed Minutes after this Photo Was Taken, 1942
"Politruk" (political commissar) Alexey Yeremenko (220th Rifle Regiment/4th Rifl…
Apr
28
Africans in German Imperial Army: Photos From 1870-1918
The Germans, as the only colonial power amongst the Central Powers, used plenty …
Apr
28
Chief John Smith, Reputed to Be 138 Years Old When He Died, 1784-1922
The Minneapolis Morning Tribune obituary says Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce (variously kn…
Apr
26
Hiroo Onoda: The Japanese Soldier Who Refused to Surrender, 1974
Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is the most famous of the so-called Japanese holdouts, a …
Apr
21
The Story of Two Soviet Prisoners of War Who Were Killed in the Murmansk Foothills, 1941
It was the night of June 29, 1941, in the foothills of Murmansk, Soviet Union. C…
Apr
20
One of the Last Cowboys of the Dying Old West Chilling in Texas, 1910
The most fascinating part about this picture is how it conveys the rapid social …
Apr
14
The German Occupation of Kharkov in Color Photographs, 1941
These photos taken by Johannes Hähle depict the civilian population of Kharkov u…
Apr
12
A Race Education Class at a School for German Girls: Photo From 1943
The three groups displayed on the poster are, from top to bottom, "ostbaltische …
Apr
10
US Marine Discovers a Near-Dead Baby in a Cave in the Jungle of Saipan Island, 1944
In a photo that somehow comprises both tenderness and horror, an American Marine…
Apr
7
The Inflatable Dummy Tanks of Battlefields: Photos From 1918-1945
What use is an inflatable dummy tank in a very real war? A lot, if the enemy bel…
Mar
30
Photographs of Petain Meeting Hitler in 1940
Few men over the last century can have experienced such a change of fortune as P…
Mar
24
Protesters Flee After Police Fires Machine Guns into a Crowd During the Infamous July Days in Russia, 1917
In the first days of July 1917, a spontaneous uprising erupted in Petrograd. The…
Mar
13
The Internment of Japanese-Americans in Historical Pictures, 1942-1944
The internment of Japanese-Americans into camps during World War II was one of t…
Mar
10
Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Hübner: One of the Youngest Recipients of the Iron Cross, 1945
As casualties mounted during the Second World War, Germany was forced to call up…
Mar
7
Tsarevich Nicholas (Future Tsar Nicholas II) at Nagasaki During His Eastern Journey, 1891
In the spring of 1891, the 23-year-old Russian prince Nicholas went to Far Easte…
Mar
3
Building the Hoover Dam Seen Through Rare Photographs, 1931-1936
Hoover Dam is as tall as a 60-story building. It was the highest dam in the worl…
Mar
3
The Final Moments of a Japanese Dive Bomber: Photo From 1945
A Japanese plane caught squarely by antiaircraft fire leaves a trail of smoke an…
Feb
24
The Battle of the Somme in Historical Pictures
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was one of the large…
Feb
22
Photos of Young Boris Yeltsin: 1940s-1980s
Boris Yeltsin, who became president of Russia in 1991, was one of the most compl…