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Photographed at the Military-historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, Saint Petersburg.

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and…

It is still early in the civil war and are still trying to gather all the details.

Alexander Parker Crittenden letter to his wife, Clara

In the 19th century, some U.S. states reduced capital crimes, moved executions out of the public eye, or abolished the death penalty, with Michigan leading the way in 1846. However, many states retained capital punishment, and by the century's end,…

President Lincoln visits General McClellan at his headquarters on October 4, 1862. Visible on the ground at the lower left is a captured Confederate battle flag.

Gardner's title for this image is "Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge."

Italian fisherman sitting in a boat in fisherman's Wharf

device- Aldine press device of a dolphin and an anchor