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There are photographs that show battles, and then there are photographs that show what war does after the guns have gone quiet. A damaged aircraft lying in an English field. A soldier carrying a wounded comrade through the Eastern Front. Civilians standing behind barbed wire as a border suddenly becomes a wall. Crowds celebrating victory…

When World War II Ended, the Photographs Still Had a Story to Tell There are photographs from World War II that need no gunfire to make us stop and look. A group of prisoners standing before a camera after liberation. Japanese representatives stepping aboard a battleship to sign the surrender documents. A long column of…

There are photographs in which nothing appears to be happening—until you learn what came next. A scientist stands beside a volcano. Children wait beside railway tracks. Workers climb higher than most people would dare. A young woman reads a newspaper announcing that humanity has entered the Space Age. Somewhere, a camera records an ordinary afternoon…

There are photographs that show history happening, and then there are photographs that seem almost ordinary until you discover what surrounds them. A child sits in the ruins of a bombed city. A soldier reaches down to touch a dog. Workers stand above a bridge suspended over the San Francisco Bay. A scientist in protective…

Welcome to the Nation of History channel. Be sure to subscribe and like so you don’t miss out on more videos like this one. In July 1922, a presentation titled World’s Largest Woman and Smallest Man brought together Nelly Blanch Lane, who weighed approximately 642 lb, and Clarence Chesterfield Howton, who measured about 2’4 in…

On September 16, 1893, thousands of people waited for a signal that would transform the landscape of Oklahoma. When the Cherokee Outlet opened, riders, wagons, horses, trains, and people on foot surged forward in what became the largest land run in Oklahoma history. More than 100,000 people competed for roughly 40,000 homesteads and town lots.…

The American West did not disappear in a single moment. It was transformed slowly—one railroad track, one mining camp, one ranch, one military outpost and one photograph at a time. Behind the familiar legend of cowboys and open plains was a far more complicated world of labor, migration, Native survival, technological change and human ambition.…

  On a winter morning in Madrid, a car suddenly rose into the sky. It was December 20, 1973. The vehicle carrying Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was traveling along Calle Claudio Coello after his usual morning Mass when an enormous explosion tore through the street. The blast threw the car over the adjacent…

Some photographs do not look important when you first see them. A woman stands quietly for a portrait. A child eats a piece of bread. Workers dig beneath a city street. A soldier embraces his mother. A couple walks beside the sea. A group of women marches through Washington. Somewhere else, an abandoned classroom lies…