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  ‘The Trouble in Cuba’ — American illustration (1895) showing Uncle Sam preparing to eat Cuba.

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  Heroin Bust – New York City, NY (1962) 660×555

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  Soviet and US athletes at the opening ceremony of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, with Yugoslav athletes in between them (February 13, 1980)

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  American illustration (1939) showing Uncle Sam walking in on Nazis decorating American heroes and monuments with swastikas

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  A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff’s deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

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  A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla’s funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.

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  An American Marine looks at the body of a North Vietnamese killed during Operation Prairie near the DMZ during the Vietnam War, October 1966.

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  Moses Hardy, the last African American WW1 veteran who was the son of ex-slaves. He survived a mustard gas attack in France, being awarded the Victory Medal by the Mississippi National Guard and the French Legion d’honneur (The most prestigious national order of merit) Nov. 4 2005 (394×284)

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  Jordan Belfort’s, aka the “Wolf of Wall Street”, mugshot after being taking to FBI New York on charges of money laundering and securities fraud, September 1998.

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  The home of civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore after being bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Day. Both were killed in the bombing. They were the first civil rights activists to be assassinated during the post-war civil rights movement (Florida, 1951) .

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  Competing posters in the New York City subway, circa 2012.

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  African-Americans protest against the Vietnam war during the Harlem Peace March, 1967

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  The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, photographed in 1917.

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  ‘Uncle Sam is a man of strong features’ — American illustration (1898) showing Uncle Sam’s face made up of various nationalities and races.

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  The Moment when Hitler declared war on the USA 1941, December 11th

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  «No More War» American (by Terry and Dennis Newell) Anti-War poster during the Vietnam war, 1970

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  A Harvest of Death. Photograph of the dead taken in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863).

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  ‘Equal Rights for Negroes, everywhere!’ Communist Party USA election poster, 1932.

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  My 3x’s great grandmother – Born in upstate New York in 1837 and moved to Michigan as a child in the 1840s, Civil War era photo taken outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan – School teacher who raised 7 relatively successful children

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  A cotton sharecropper with his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, 1935

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