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See the Real Rosie the Riveters at Work

by Tom Huntington3/8/20233/19/2023

Compelling images from aircraft factories in World War II underscore the impact women had assembling the arsenal of democracy.

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20233/2/2023

Civil War portrait photographs from the Liljenquist Collection

How This Digital Map is Connecting Civil War Faces to Places

by Melissa A. Winn2/6/20232/6/2023

Photo of Manzanar Relocation Center. During the winter the Manzanar Relocation Center had no hope of disguising itself as anything but what it was: punitive confinement.

Ansel Adams Hauntingly Beautiful Images: Photographing the Despair of Japanese-American Internment

by Richard J. Goodrich1/17/202311/1/2022

The Flight of the Refugees: How War Impacts Civilians

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/11/20231/11/2023

This Photographer Delivered the Truth About Crimea — But It Wasn’t What the British Crown Wanted to See

by Alex Griffith12/13/202212/13/2022

Photo of Robert Cornelius

Did This Guy Invent the Selfie… in 1839?

by Sarah Richardson12/13/202212/15/2022

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How Patton Saw the War—In His Own Photographs

by Jerry D. Morelock11/11/202211/11/2022

Mathew Brady Memorial Ceremony

Mathew Brady Was a Genius. His New Monument Lives Up to That Reputation.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher and Melissa A. Winn9/26/20229/27/2022

The "Fort Worth Five," Butch Cassidy and members of his Wild Bunch gang, pose in 1900 for Fort Worth photographer John Swartz.

Who Shot The Iconic ‘Fort Worth Five’ Photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

by Richard Selcer and Donna Donnell9/21/20229/21/2022