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The Last Public Execution in the United States: Rainey Bethea's Hanging, 1936
Photograph capturing the public hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky. The photo shows a large crowd gathered as attendants adjust a black hood over Bethea's head moments before his execution. Bethea, a 22-year-old Black…
The Launch of a Decade of Systematic Abuse and Impunity
Summary of major events with pictures
The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945
The bodies of the dead lie awaiting burial in a mass grave at the camp.
The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945
Women SS camp guards remove bodies from lorries and carry them to the mass grave.
The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945
The bodies of the dead lie stripped of their clothing and abandoned in heaps in the camp.
The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle
Digitized scan of The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle, written by an anonymous author covering the period between 1190-1343.
