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An August 1940 photograph of a portion of the Maginot Line after being taken by German troops. The defensive system was built along France's eastern frontiers prior to the Second World War (1939-45) but was largely bi-passed by Germany's...

A photograph of an accomodation room of the Maginot Line, the defensive system built along France's eastern frontiers prior to the Second World War (1939-45). From the Schoenenbourg fort, Bas-Rhin, France.

A photograph of part of the tunnel network of the Maginot Line, the defensive system built along France's eastern frontiers prior to the Second World War (1939-45). From the Schoenenbourg fort, Bas-Rhin, France.

An example of a mixed gun retracting turret of the Maginot Line, the defensive system built along France's eastern frontiers prior to the Second World War (1939-45). Alsace region.

A photograph showing the signing of the United Nations Charter on 26 June 1945 at the San Francisco Conference.

The headquarters of the United Nations, Turtle Island, New York.

The pathways toward early civilization and complex society between c. 12,000 and 1000 BCE were neither uniform nor linear. After the end of the last Ice Age, climatic and environmental change encouraged communities in different parts of the...

Operation Barbarossa (22 June–December 1941) was the codename for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War (1939–1945). Launched by Adolf Hitler (rule 1933–1945), it was not only a military campaign but also...

The massacre at New Orleans, tempera painting by Thomas Nast, 1867. Nast depicts here President Andrew Johnson adorned in kingly dress as the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 unfolds around him, wherein White rioters, many of whom were ex-Confederates...

Portrait of President Andrew Johnson, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1865. After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in the spring of 1865, Andrew Johnson, his vice president, assumed the office. Although Johnson had made the punishment...