Christmas is usually associated with comfort and cheer, but these images tell a very different story.
Far from the warm and jolly figure known today,...
The 1980s hold a special place in modern memory. Even people who never lived through the decade feel drawn to its colors, music, and unmistakable attitude.
Something about that period still resonates today. It was loud, bold, and full of confidence, yet at the same time familiar and personal.
Looking back,...
New York City has weathered countless winter storms, but the Blizzard of 1996 stands out as one of the most dramatic moments in its modern history.
Arriving in early January, the storm swept across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic with relentless force, transforming everyday routines into a struggle against nature.
For three...
In the early 1940s, Fort Bragg was more than just a military installation in North Carolina, it was a place where young men prepared for the uncertainty of war while still holding on to moments of normal life.
Named after Confederate general Braxton Bragg, the base was established in 1918...
The Apollo astronauts Charles Duke and John Young train on the geological rover, or “Grover,” a lunar rover trainer, in Arizona. Both Duke and Young went on to walk on the surface of the moon in 1972, during Apollo 16.
Before the they walked on the moon on July 20,...
The story of Japan’s “comfort women” remains one of the most painful and heavily documented examples of wartime exploitation in modern history.
Between 1932 and 1945, the Imperial Japanese government created and oversaw a vast system of sexual slavery that...
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...
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...