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50 Important Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things (New Pics)
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 discussion sections, where the shared experience of viewing a picture can provide a focus for lively group discussion.
Now, 15 years after the professor said these words, we can say that her insights were spot on. Take this subreddit, for example. It unites over 3 million people, and they're all exploring the past through historical photographs. The rarely seen images coupled with the detailed fashion in which the community shares them with one another (every upload includes an accurate description of what is being presented (event, location, war, year, etc.) not only provides a look into our earlier days, but also inspires interesting discussions in the comment section.
We at Bored Panda have already covered the subreddit here and here, but it has received plenty of new submissions since our last publication, so we thought it's about time we made another one. Continue scrolling to check out some of its recent posts and the conversation we had with historians Joshua Wilkey and Darren R. Reid.
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Cop Stops The Traffic In New York So A Mother Cat Holding A Kitten Can Cross Safely C.1925
Remember That Photo Of The Construction Workers Having Lunch On The Unfinished Empire State Building? Well Here's The Photographer Charles Ebbets Taking That Photo. 9/20/1932
"I think photography can be an essential and powerful tool for understanding history, but I think it is also necessary to view all photographs with a critical eye," professor, writer, and amateur homesteader Joshua Wilkey told Bored Panda. "While we might be accustomed to skepticism of photos in the age of Photoshop, photo editing isn't the only thing that should give us pause."
Dr. Darren R. Reid, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dundee and is now a lecturer at Coventry University, agrees. He explained to us that images are an incredibly important part of how we understand the past. "They give us a distinct look into how people and societies viewed themselves and each other," Reid said.
"In the medieval period, for example, Jesus and the saints were often depicted as physically larger than ordinary people — not because they were believed to be taller, but because they occupied a higher status in the minds of the artists who produced these images, and the audiences who consumed them. In later centuries, Europeans (and their descendants) looked to the classical world for inspiration, spending huge amounts of time (and money) on images that were both increasingly realistic and idealized."
"Native Americans and American colonizers were frequently depicted in classical poses — all deliberate choices that show us how many people perceived the invasion of the Americas and the genocides that occurred there," Reid continued. "They also include important details (such as items of clothing, hairstyles, etc.) that help us to picture the past. For modern people, this means we can more accurately imagine, and perhaps, empathize with the very different folks who came before us."
Rail Commuters Wearing White Protective Masks, One With The Additional Message “Wear A Mask Or Go To Jail,” During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic In California
Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer
Mogadishu, 1993. An Italian Soldier Gives Food To A Local Orphan
Talking about photographs, in particular, Joshua Wilkey provided a few very helpful questions we can ask ourselves when analyzing them:
Is the photo lacking context? Or what is happening outside of the frame? "There's always the chance that the viewer is seeing an intentionally skewed perspective," Wilkey highlighted. "A picture might be worth a thousand words, but sometimes it takes a thousand words to explain the context of a single photo. Some pictures are downright strange without context."
Is the photo representative? In other words, can the photo indicate something bigger than itself? "For example, the internet has, for years, made fun of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for marveling at seemingly cool but likely fake things like modern and well-stocked grocery stores. These photos are meant to be representative images portraying for Kim's people and for foreigners that North Korea is a modern and well-nourished society. The reality is a bit different."
Atelier Photo: "A Lesbian Couple In Semi Drag Wedding Attire"; Kingdom Of Hungary - Budapest, 1920
A Man Looking For A Job Wearing His Cv, England - 1930s
A Beach In Iran A Few Months Before The Islamic Revolution, 1979
As the historian said, these concepts can apply to virtually any photograph, but they become crucial when we're viewing a particular one as evidence. "They are important for historical photographs because of the power and usefulness of photography in political propaganda. North Korea is a great example of a regime that uses photography for propaganda, and the Soviet Union and the US were great examples too, particularly during the Cold War and the Space Race."
"Another good example of government using photography to achieve a political end was the Farm Service Administration's use of photography to document the impact of the Great Depression as a means of garnering support for the New Deal," Wilkey added. "Roosevelt's opponents argued it was political propaganda, while his proponents argued it was an accurate depiction of what was happening. Ultimately, most scholars have concluded that, while it accomplished political ends, it was indeed an accurate portrayal of reality."
1972: 3 Women On The Streets Of Kabul, Afghanistan
A Man Browses For Books In The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati. The Building Was Demolished In 1955. Today An Office Building And A Parking Lot Stand Where It Used To Be
Oh God SO MANY BOOKS!!! I hope they saved the books before demolishing the building
It’s No Longer Possible To See This, As Buildings Outside Block The Sun. Grand Central, NYC, 1929 Photo By Louis Faurer
One more case that Wilkey mentioned to illustrate his point is Jacob Riis’s 1890 photojournalism work titled 'How the Other Half Lives,' which offered shocking views of tenement housing in New York City.
"Riis's work was accused of being 'muckraking' (activist journalism), but it led to reforms on tenement laws and rights and helped shepherd some of the first public health laws in the US," the historian said.
"Using photos from Riis’s work, one can apply both of the principles above: consider what is happening outside the frame of the camera, and consider whether the photos are representative. In the case of most of Riis’s photos of terrible living conditions, what was outside the frame of his camera was much the same as what was inside the frame, and his photographed subjects were representative of their entire communities. For me, they pass both my tests and should be treated as important historical sources."
Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947
A French Boy Introduces Himself To Indian Soldiers Who Had Just Arrived In France To Fight Alongside French And British Forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914. [colorization]
West German School Children Pause To Talk With Two East German Border Guards Beside An Opening In The Berlin Wall During The Collapse Of Communism In East Germany In November 1989 (Photo: Stephen Jaffe)
However, Darren R. Reid pointed out that not only politicians and governments contribute to bending the narrative, and suggested taking a closer look at the art produced by the people.
"The invasion of the Americas was frequently sanctioned and/or driven by governments, but it was the acts of 'ordinary' people that made it possible, and across that continent, a huge body of work was produced to justify, even encourage, some really terrible acts," he said. "American comic books and movies depicted Native Americans as simple, brutish, and savage. This helped to justify genocide and colonization as it was ongoing — and justify it, long after the most violent part of the process was complete. For a great example, check out the awful depiction of Native Americans in Disney’s Peter Pan. They helped to justify the colonial project to generations of children, right up to the present day."
As Sue Walsh, the creative director at SYPartners, wonderfully put it, the way we perceive the world is more fluid than the binaries of fact and fiction. Especially now that we live in what some call a post-truth era. So keep not only an open eye, but a sharp mind as well if you want to navigate it.
Reporters Who Exposed The Watergate Scandal Watch President Nixon Resign, 1974
A Man Guards His Family From The Cannibals During The Madras Famine Of 1877 At The Time Of British Raj, India
I don't care if anyone gets offended by this, bt fck those colonizing grassholes! This looks so painful to WATCH, the pain they must've gone through is beyond my capability to imagine.
A Man Takes A Selfie Using A Stick Of Wood To Activate The Camera, 1957
French Soldiers Passing By A Dog Wearing Googles And Smoking A Pipe, 1915
High School Teacher John T. Scopes Is Brought To Trial In Dayton, Tennessee For Teaching The Theory Of Evolution, Which Was Prohibited Under State Law. July 10, 1925
There are people today who want to return to those benighted days.
A Black U.S. Soldier Reads A Message Left By The Việt Cộng During The Vietnam War, The Message Reads: "U.S. Negro Armymen, You Are Committing The Same Ignominious Crimes In South Vietnam That The Kkk Clique Is Perpetrating Against Your Family At Home.", 1970.
David Attenborough Entertains Prince Charles And Princess Anne With A Cockatoo. 1958
Martin Luther King Jr. Removing A Burnt Cross From His Front Yard In 1960
Ugh, I hate how racist some people are. It's sad there are still racists, but we've gotten much better
A Young Female Welder Photographed By Bernard Hoffman In Connecticut, Circa 1943.
Woman Cutting Her Birthday Cake In Iran 1973, 5 Years Before The Islamic Revolution
A Makeshift Hospital In The Vietnam War, 1970
An Old Woman Leaving Her Home With Just A Portrait Of Her Husband And Rugs. Russian Soldiers Gave Her Just 5 Minutes To Pack Her Bags And Leave Before They Destroyed Her Home And Everything In It. Her Sons And Husband Were Already Dead. She Had Lost Everything. May 1995, Grozny
Filming An Episode Of “The French Chef” With Julia Child, 1963
Max Schreck Relaxing Behind The Scenes Of Nosferatu, 1922
A Picture Of A Submerged Diver In 1899. Many Believe It To Be The First Photograph Taken Underwater
John F. Kennedy Campaigning Door-To-Door In West Virginia (1960)
I don't know about anyone else but when someone comments that they're commenting to hide a rude comment, it draws my attention to the rude comment, not away from it.
Korean Mother Embraces Her Son, A Prisoner Of War Who Escaped His North Korean Pow Camp Shortly After The Signing Of The Korean Armistice Agreement, Which Ended The Widespread Fighting Of The Korean War, 1953.
Chinese Guerrilla Fighter Cheng Benhua 成本華 Smiling Moment Before Execution By The Japanese, She Was 24. (Late 1938) [502 X 806]
Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989
Students Dance In Tiananmen Square Before The Arrival Of The Chinese Military, June 4th 1989
Chief Low Dog - An Oglala Lakota Chief Who Fought With Sitting Bull At The Battle Of Little Bighorn, C. 1881
The Queen Consort Of Mongolia, Genepil, In Mongolia. The Last Queen Consort And Married To The Bogd Khaganate, Bogd Khan, Until His Death On April 17th, 1924, When The Monarchy Was Abolished. She Was Killed During The Stalinist Purges In May 1938. Photograph Dated January 1st, 1923
Rare Photo Showing Niagara Falls Without Water, 1969
Mt St Helens The 17th Of May 1980 And 4 Months Later
David Bowie After Being Arrested For Marijuana Possession In Rochester, 1976
Photograph Of The First Official Defector Of The "German Democratic Republic", Conrad Schumann, Who Escaped To The Western Side On August 15, 1961 After Jumping The Unfinished Area Of the Fence That He Guarded.
Eiffel Tower Under Construction, July 1888 [colorized]
In the background you can see the halls constructed for the world fair 1889. All of which have been demolished afterwards unfortunately. The tower was the hightes building in the world until the Chrysler Building was finished in 1930.
Kubrick Taking A Photo With Daughter Vivian, On The Set Of The Shining. Nicholson Thought He Himself Was The Photo’s Subject. 1980
Ha! Imagine someone waves at you, you wave awkwardly back and it was the person behind you. That would be the same level of awkward i think. :D Poor Nicholson.
Actor And Martial Arts Star Jackie Chan At The Benefit Concert In Hong Kong, In Support Of Tiananmen Square Protesters - 1989
The Director Of The Belgrade Zoo Tries To Convince Sami The Chimpanzee To Return Home After He Escaped, 1988
Indigenous Children Forced To Pray To God In A Residential School Ran By The Canadian Government And Catholic Church Between 1930 And 1970, Unknown Location
Babies Left To Sleep Outside, Enforcing Immune Sistem, Moscow 1958
Coal Miner Waiting To Get Into The Communal Shower At The End Of His Shift, Taken In Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1958. By Photographer Max Scheler
Archduke Franz Ferdinand And His Wife Minutes Before Assassination That Would Lead To Ww1, 1914 [colorized]
People Fighting To Get On A Plane In Nha Trang, April 1, 1975, During The Us Withdrawal From South Vietnam
Nirvana During The Photo Shoot For Their Album Nevermind, Which Was Released 30 Years Ago. 1991
Ugh, the baby for the cover has grown up into an insufferable a$$hole, just look up "Nirvana baby drama" and you'll see what that d*ckhead has been up to
Frederick Douglass With His Musician Grandson Joseph Douglass, 1894.
During the time following the Civil War, many African-American musicians began to break into the art music genre. Joseph Douglass, a concert violinist, was one of the first African-American performers to be nationally and internationally renowned. His influence came at an early age from his father and grandfather, famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who were both amateur violin players. He studied violin at Boston Conservatory. Douglass received his first big break as a concert violinist at the age of 22 when he performed at the World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair. On August 25, 1893, performers joined together to celebrate Colored American Day (which Frederick Douglass helped plan).
21-Years-Old Yves Saint Laurent At Christian Dior's Funeral, 1957
“One Of America’s Youngest Newsboys. Four Years Old And Regular Seller. Tampa, Florida.” - 1913
A Hippie Girl Selling Roadside Flowers In Oklahoma, 1973
The Consequences Of Landing On The Wrong Aircraft Carrier, 1952
A United States Soldier Holds Up A Jungle Centipede During The Vietnam War, 1967
Florence Thompson, The Migrant Mother In Dorothea Lange's Famous 1936 Photo, Holds Up Her Likeness During An Interview After Her Identity Was Discovered, October 10, 1978
Using A Vacuum Cleaner, 1906
One Of Only Two Certified Photographs Of Billy The Kid (Top Hat). Playing Cards With His Accomplices. 1877
Ww2: Chinese And Malayan Girls Forcibly Taken From Penang By The Japanese To Work As 'Comfort Girls' For The Troops. 1939-1945
Let's call this what it really was. The Japanese abducted countless numbers of women and girls and forced them into sexual slavery to satisfy the whims of Japanese soldiers.
Why on earth are there little girls that look to be 3 to 8 years old? None of them should be there but how sick and twisted are these men to be grabbing girls so young
As long as there are men that do not seem to grasp that we women are actually living, breathing, people, this will continue.
Load More Replies...Comfort girls?These women were exploited as sex slaves, that is what this is. Raped over and over again by Japanese soldiers. A lot of women in occupied Japanse lands sufferd this fate.
Disgusting. And the horror of this crime was not acknowledged for decades. It's rape - call it what it is!
It is still not acknowledged officially by Japan.
Load More Replies...This also happened to the Yezidi girls in Iraq, who were abducted by IS. I read some stories from the survivors. One girl told the interviewer she was sometimes raped up to 30 times a day. A western doctor who treated these victims had one girl of I believe 9 years old and she had been bought and sold again at least 4 times in 1 year. I can’t even imagine the stories that haven’t been told yet. I get sick just thinking about it.
Yes, the invasion of IS everywhere is also a war on women. Not acknowledged enough.
Load More Replies...That is not correct. Aparently the unrecstricted age of consent is 18 with a restricted age of consent being 13. I´m not reading into the details of those restrictions though.
Load More Replies...Unreal that men act they are entitled to do this for their seIf satisfaction. If a man were to rape me, they better kill me. I would hunt him down and he would wish he killed me.
There would be nothing you could do. And that's the worst part for these girls and women. Being made to do horrible, humiliating and unbearable things just so they could survive. And then having to do them all over again the next day. I can't bear some of the stories of the survivors. Enough hasn't been done to acknowledge what happened to them.
Load More Replies...no. it uses softened language, and even Jo softens it a bit. it is, and only is: government sanctioned rape, abduction, and war crimes.
Load More Replies...Gaurds Of Delhi Darbar India Posing With James Recalton An American Photographer In 1903
Theodosian Walls Of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. 1870.
Mountain Of Buffalo Skulls In 1892 At The Height Of Their Endangerment
Miners In The Serra Pelada Gold Mines In Brazil, 1980s
John Lennon Signing An Autograph For Mark David Chapman, The Man Who Would Kill Him Five Hours Later, NYC, 1980
Textile Worker, Taken By Nikolay Matorin, Ussr, C. 1960
Ku Klux Klan Members On A Ferris Wheel In An Amusement Park In Cañon City, Colorado, April 26th 1926
Princess Diana Losing An Argument To Her 7 Year Old Son.around 1991,
aka Harry, who I'm sorry, but as a child who did that same gesture, is not winning that argument gettyimage...527652.jpg another photo from the same event
Daughters Of Tsar Nicolas II During A Summer Cruise In Finland, 1908
Mobsters Hide Their Faces At Al Capone's Trial 1931
Elisabeth "Lilo" Gloeden Stands Before Judges, On Trial For Being Involved In The Attempt On Adolf Hitler's Life, 1944
Boiler Explosion Of C&o T-1 #3020 On May 1948
Us Medic Gives First Aid To A Wounded German Ss Soldier, France 1944
What Is Now The Fully Developed Las Vegas Strip, 1955
A View Of The Destruction In Old Town Dresden From The Town Hall Tower, 15 Feb 1945.
Pyramid Of German Helmets In Celebration Of Victory, Grand Central, New York, 1919
Tucker Sno-Cat Hovering Over A Crevasse During The Transantarctic Expedition, 1954
The Only Known Color Photograph Of The Russian Czar's Fabled "Amber Room" - Looted By The Nazi's This Unique, Priceless Work Of Art Was Lost For Ever (Maybe?). St Petersburg, 1943
I'm sure this has been said countless times, but I'll say it again: Fück you, Hitler!
The Champs-Élysées As Seen From The Arc De Triomphe, Ve Day. Paris, France, May 8, 1945. [colorization]
Puritan Picket Against Too Revealing Swimwear On A Florida Beach, 1985. USA “You Will Follow To Hell.”
George N. Barnard's 1864 Photograph Of A Slave Trader's Business On Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, Shows A United States Colored Troop Infantryman [corporal] Just By The Door.
Student Survivors Head To A Library Near Columbine High School Where Students And Faculty Members Were Evacuated After Two Gunmen Went On A Shooting Rampage In The School. Tuesday, April 20, 1999.
Tutankhamun's Head. Harry Burrton Photo Published Dec. 1925. @ Griffin Institute/Oxford University.
American Film Actress Veronica Lake Illustrates What Can Happen To Women War Workers Who Wear Their Hair Long While Working At Their Benches, In A Factory Somewhere In America, On November 9, 1943
Shigeru Miyamoto, Creator Of Mario And Other Characters And Video Games For Nintendo, Holds A Nintendo Game Boy Containing The Super Mario World Video Game. June 1992
Finnish Soldiers In Nbc Gear, 1961
Bulgarian Soldier Giving His Best Battle Cry For The Camera, Ca. 1916.
Ground View Of Human Fly George Willig Climbing The South Tower Of The World Trade Center In New York City, May 26, 1977
Hitler Rehearsing A Speech In Front Of A Mirror, Taken By His Personal Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, 1925
Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique (1960s-2000s)
Italian-American Cafe, Macdougal Street, NY, 1942
Young Boys Harassing The Horace Baker Family, The First African American Family To Move Into The All White Delmar Village Neighborhood Of Folcroft, Pennsylvania - Aug. 30, 1963.
16-Year-Old Brenda Spencer Leaves Court In Santa Ana, California, After Pleading Guilty To Two Counts Of Murder In A Sniper Attack. She Killed Two People And Wounded Nine Others. 1979
President Gerald Ford And Pele Play With A Soccer Ball In The Rose Garden, June 28, 1975
Soviet Soldiers Celebrate Returning Home Alive, 1945
Barbara Walters During Her Freshman Year At Sarah Lawrence College In 1949
A Man Exercises Using A Rowing Machine In The Gym Aboard The Rms Titanic, 1912.
Jean Bedel Bokassa During His Coronation Ceremony To Make Himself Emperor Bokassa The First, Central African Republic 1977. The Ceremony Wasted A Third Of The Car's Entire Annual Fiscal Budget.
A Dutch Athlete Receives A Portrait Of Adolf Hitler As A Sports Prize, Presented By General Otto Schumann, Commander Of The Ordnungspolizei. The Hague, The Netherlands, 1941
Harry S. Truman As A Captain During Wwi, 1918
Soviet Rock Fans Attend A Concert In Moscow On September 28, 1991. Half A Million People Jammed An Airfield To See The Soviet Union’s Biggest Western Rock Concert, Touted As A Gift To Russian Youth For Their Resistance Last Month’s Coup.
Spring Break In California, 1947
They are not stick thin! See how fashion can change women's body shapes whilst men's body shape tends to stay the same.
Bill Clinton & White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky, 1998
That woman was public ally ridiculed by everyone, yet no one took into account bill Clinton was much older, her boss and the most powerful man in America, she deserves an apology from everyone who shamed her
J.k. Rowling Writing Harry Potter At A Café In Scotland (1998)
Female Nigerian Slave Trader Efunroye Tinubu (C. 1880)
She sold slaves to Brazilian and European merchants in violation of a 1852 treaty with Great Britain outlawing the slave trade in Lagos, which resulted in her coming into conflict with the British. She was exiled to Abeokuta under British pressure after plotting an unsuccessful conspiracy to remove British influence from Lagos. While in Abeokuta, she helped supply the city with munition during its victorious war against the Kingdom of Dahomey, thus granting her the chieftancy title of Iyalode in her honour.
The Temporary Grave Of Theodore Roosevelt In Normandy, Soon After His Death, July 1944. [colorization]
A South Korean Soldier Forcibly Cuts A Young Man's Hair In Front Of Others During A Nationwide Crackdown On Men With Long Hair And Women Wearing Short Skirts In South Korea - 1970s
A Japanese Soldier Wades Into The Sea Off Cape Endaiadere, New Guinea, With A Grenade Against His Head Moments Before It Goes Off, Defying An Australian Soldier Calling On Him To Surrender, December 18, 1942
I am lucky to life in a country and time, to not experience that s**t, besides movies, internet and books.
1892, Logging Family With A 1300 Year Old Tree
Stalin In Bailov Prison, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 1910. [colorized By Me]
Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen Stands Next To His Third Wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale. He Is Wearing A Polar Bear Coat Made From A Bear He Killed Himself, 1947
In Response To The Anti-Japanese Sentiment That Followed The Attack On Pearl Harbor, The Japanese-American Citizens League Opened The Anti-Axis Committee Office On December 14, 1941. It Was Part Of Their Campaign To Demonstrate The Loyalty Of American-Born Japanese Citizens To The Us
Nelson Mandela At A South African Communist Party Rally. Soweto, 1990.
British Schoolboys Holding Discarded Syringes, 1970s. "We Used To Play With These In School All The Time Because They Were Like Mini Water Pistols (Without The Needle)."
Former President Andrew Jackson Aged 78, One Of The Few Existing Photographs Of Him, Taken In 1845, The Year He Died
Adolf Hitler And Ludwig Wittgenstein In 1903
Jurassic Park: The Ride Officially Opened At Universal Studios Hollywood. Here, Steven Spielberg And Jeff Goldblum Lift The Torches For The Ride's Grand Opening On June 21, 1996
President Lyndon B. Johnson Drives His Amphicar On The Lake Of His Texas Ranch In 1965
Vladimir Lenin Plays Chess (Yelling Checkmate) With Alexander Bogdanov During A Visit To Maxim Gorky, Capri, Italy, 1908 -
A Soviet Mi-8 Helicopter Flying Past One Of The Two Buddhas Of Bamiyan, Afghanistan 1980
Two French Men Restrain A Woman While Another Cuts Her Hair After She Has Been Accused Of Collaborating With The Germans During The Occupation, 1945. [colorization]
Of course "collaborating" probably meant staying alive in any way she could, and feeding her kids scraps the Germans gave her for "favours". These heroes probably did their own raping and pillaging, but they did it for France.
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Is Married To Greek Magnate Aristotle Onassis, 1968
Oh, I didn't realize they were married in the late 60s. For some reason, I thought it was in the 80s.
President Nixon Dines With Chinese Leaders In Beijing, 1972
A Pic Of Turkish Military Exercise In Istanbul Against To Danger Of Chemical Attack.(1939)
Paul Tibbets, The Man Who Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima, Pictured In 1996
I know this won't be appreciated, but the atomic bomb attacks were war crimes. It is against the rules of war (and morale) to attack civilians, hospitals and non-combatants. This bomb (and the next) killed children, destroyed schools and hospitals without any distinction. The USA never were the good guys but at this moment was too much, even for them.
Absolutely fascinating photos. Love these articles. Can't "like" alot of pictures as they are too sad
Weapons, war, religion, greed: these are how we have destroyed our world.
I think greed is probably beh9ind a lot of the war and religion, thereby making weapons profitable :-(
Load More Replies...I like posts that cover the whole world, not only the Western part of it
The one with the starving Indians was the one that really hit me hard. They looked like skeletons. It really puts all of the ridiculous things we hold as important into perspective.
Very interesting post. There are many thing and events I now want to research. The photos are fascinating! Thank you BP
This is when history comes alive for me. Its one thing to read about it in a book, but photos make it tangible. Especially when I'm so much younger (31) then all of them except like 1 or 2.
The photos are amazing and I made loads of emotional noises out loud as well as felt hot prickly tears at the back of my eyes. What a collection. Great work Bored Panda crew :)
Bored panda needs to do a Bored panda comments section list like the most obvious,the most desperate for someone to acknowledge I'm alive ,the most off topic ,the most informational, the most bizarre cause honestly some comments make me laugh harder then whatever topic that's being covered
I wonder if us humans will ever learn from our pasts...
These were amazing but kinda sad at the time. Just crazy what some photographers can get and make others open there eyes to laughter or sadness. In reality it's all beauty and to help others be grateful for what we have. We can only hope n pray for peace and sometines we get a to capture in a photo. Peace I pray for the world now.
Some pictures make you think how much humanity has progressed to the better and how much some stays the same.. Despite all that.. without doubt, the emotions in every picture is immortal
Communist greed for power is at the root of much of the war, death and famine in the 20th century. In those hundred years they managed to kill more people than religion ever has.
Whenever I see stuff about war I remember a play we were shown in school. As long as we persist in identifying as anything at all, war is inevitable. Play is called Us and Them by David Campton. https://pracownik.kul.pl/files/12821/public/Over_the_Wall_Us_and_Them.pdf
Serious? Because all those men dying, being tortured, captured, suffering from PTSD and suicide weren't in hell.
Load More Replies...Absolutely fascinating photos. Love these articles. Can't "like" alot of pictures as they are too sad
Weapons, war, religion, greed: these are how we have destroyed our world.
I think greed is probably beh9ind a lot of the war and religion, thereby making weapons profitable :-(
Load More Replies...I like posts that cover the whole world, not only the Western part of it
The one with the starving Indians was the one that really hit me hard. They looked like skeletons. It really puts all of the ridiculous things we hold as important into perspective.
Very interesting post. There are many thing and events I now want to research. The photos are fascinating! Thank you BP
This is when history comes alive for me. Its one thing to read about it in a book, but photos make it tangible. Especially when I'm so much younger (31) then all of them except like 1 or 2.
The photos are amazing and I made loads of emotional noises out loud as well as felt hot prickly tears at the back of my eyes. What a collection. Great work Bored Panda crew :)
Bored panda needs to do a Bored panda comments section list like the most obvious,the most desperate for someone to acknowledge I'm alive ,the most off topic ,the most informational, the most bizarre cause honestly some comments make me laugh harder then whatever topic that's being covered
I wonder if us humans will ever learn from our pasts...
These were amazing but kinda sad at the time. Just crazy what some photographers can get and make others open there eyes to laughter or sadness. In reality it's all beauty and to help others be grateful for what we have. We can only hope n pray for peace and sometines we get a to capture in a photo. Peace I pray for the world now.
Some pictures make you think how much humanity has progressed to the better and how much some stays the same.. Despite all that.. without doubt, the emotions in every picture is immortal
Communist greed for power is at the root of much of the war, death and famine in the 20th century. In those hundred years they managed to kill more people than religion ever has.
Whenever I see stuff about war I remember a play we were shown in school. As long as we persist in identifying as anything at all, war is inevitable. Play is called Us and Them by David Campton. https://pracownik.kul.pl/files/12821/public/Over_the_Wall_Us_and_Them.pdf
Serious? Because all those men dying, being tortured, captured, suffering from PTSD and suicide weren't in hell.
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