My grandparents took these of each other in the summer of 1953. She was a high school junior and he was 20 and had just come back from serving in the Korean War. They've now been married 70 years. - History Education Network

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A striking photo of one of the first GIs from the 4th Infantry Division to fall on Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Newborn opens their eyes to see their mother, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kodak safety film, 1951

Stop! Or You’ll Be Late For Your Confirmation Hearing, Clarence Thomas Executioner, 1991, Art by Kevin ‘Kal’ Lallaugher for the Baltimore Sun

June 11, 1963: A 67 year old Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc died by self-immolation at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. He took this ultimate step to protest persecution and discriminatory policies targeting Buddhists by the Catholic led government.

Renty, a slave, looks into the camera for a daguerreotype (early photograph) in Columbia, South Carolina. c. 1850.

My grandparents took these of each other in the summer of 1953. She was a high school junior and he was 20 and had just come back from serving in the Korean War. They’ve now been married 70 years.

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