This stereoscopic photo, taken 129 years ago today, shows (according to the included description) the “last snow of summer” in the mineral boomtown of Leadville, …
This snapshot, taken 30 days into the Warsaw Uprising, gives a vivid sense of the intense urban warfare that characterized that fateful Polish revolt against …
490 years ago today the Ottoman empire, under the leadership of Suleiman the Magnificent, captured Belgrade. Then under Hungarian control, Belgrade had long been an elusive …
In what was much sunnier weather 48 years ago today, Martin Luther King Junior gave his landmarks “I Have a Dream” civil rights speech, at …
As the East Coast waits to see what Hurricane Irene will bring, here’s an aerial shot taken six years ago today of Hurricane Katrina, as …
This painting shows the sinking of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosee, which occurred 97 years ago today. The SS Kaiser Wilhelm had two notable distinctions …
Think that electric cars are the wave of the future in automobiles? Apparently they were also the wave of the past, as this 92 year-old …
1601 years ago today, the ancient world was shocked by the sacking of Rome by Visigoth warriors led by Alaric I, a former Roman soldier …
For those who felt the tremors from the East Coast earthquake today, here’s a photo taken 78 years again today, when a hurricane struck Norfolk …
A great snapshot of West Point cadets on a practice march, taken 104 years ago today. Though occurring just ten years before the U.S. formally entered …
Monthly Archives: August 2011