Historical pictures

Have you ever seen your grandparents’ wedding photos? How about your great-grandparents’ baby pictures? If you’ve got an album full of ancient, black and white family photos just collecting dust in your attic, wouldn’t you like to see those same images in vibrant colors?

Historians have offered vastly different interpretations of the origins of the Cold War over the past 5 decades. Few historical events have been subject to such an array of revisionist and neo-revisionist accounts. In this lesson, students enter the fray through exploring a variety of documents highlighting various issues and perspectives that led to the Cold War and address the question: Who was primarily responsible for the Cold War, the United States or the Soviet Union? [All files…

Pictures hold something truly special—a speck of time that once was and shall never be again. They’re the closest thing we have to a time machine, allowing us to glimpse through a window of film and into the past.

The photograph precipitated a dramatic change in how we perceive history. Amazing old photos like these can make it seem like you were standing right there during that historical moment.

In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

Colorizing retoucher Jordan J. Lloyd of Dynamichrome took vintage photographs of global landmarks under construction and added color to them to give us a

In a world that's constantly moving forward, there's something undeniably mesmerizing about taking a step back in time, if only for a moment.

You can barely recognize Southeast Asia’s biggest country.

Here is a list of some intriguing Colosseum Facts, considered as one of the best work of Roman Architecture and engineering. The Colosseum is a symbol of the Italian Capital and one of the worlds greatest tourist attractions. The largest amphitheatre ever built is sufficiently well preserved to demonstrate its impressive original form, but at […]

Social History, Politics, Asia, The Partition of India and Pakistan, pic: 1947, Muslim refugees from India at a refugee camp