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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
In the beginning, I think most of them genuinely meant well, in their own rigid, culturally restrictive, white supremacist ways. Unfortunately, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and it’s 16 lanes wide,
Load More Replies...I once shared a hospital room with a NA woman who looked at the white woman in the next bed and asked "Are you a Christian?". When I said "No", she said "Oh good, I HATE Christians! Horrible, awfuly, evil, hypocritical... etc. etc.". You see, she'd been to one of these schools, and it was so bad she'd spent the rest of her life loathing everyone associated with those hellholes.
I've seen other pictures of those catholic nuns and they all have these freakish demonic eyes. Maybe the camera does capture more truth than we see with our own eyes.
Load More Replies...Not just the death of culture but the death of people also. Lots of people throughout the years.
Load More Replies...As a Native American, this always has been a black spot, a cloud in our history. Something you don't mention. Something that can bring back horrible memories in an instant. For Cherokee, it culminated in a yearly reunion of Chilloco Indians, the ones with the deepest scars. There's still a few elders left. They speak of it in whispered tones.
Make more noise. Burn stuff. Get on CNN. Tell the world you still live in an apartheid state. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bantustan
Load More Replies...Yep, any time someone days, "Oh you Canadians are so nice" I wanna scream. Really? Are we? Could argue this started while Canada was under British rule - though it continued well after we got out from under, but the truth is that the government still hasn't made any reparations, and there are people still living on reservations in mold-ridden, hole-riddled mobile homes with no access to clean water because the government *still* pushes them off lands that are desirable to private business.
Or used as sacrifices to the floods, like the Lake St. Martin First Nations. The government's priorities were to save the farm lands.
Load More Replies...In South America indigenous were forced to only speak spanish, to not speak their mother tongue, to forget their culture, their books were burned. F**k the catholic church.
Many abused, missing, murdered :'( not to mention generational trauma. Poor children. You are not forgotten..... the last résidentiel "school' closed in 1996.
Catholic Church should be disbanded. Shocked people still support them, given the atrocities it's committed and continues to. And continue indoctrinating their children, despite its treatment of children. Disgusting.
Agreed. I have nothing against faith, but religion is another matter.
Load More Replies...The Canadian government and the Catholic church just apologized in 2021 for how badly these children were abused. https://globalnews.ca/news/8458351/canada-residential-schools-unmarked-graves-indigenous-impact/
Yes, but the Manitoba government s**t on the reconciliation with Pallister's tone-deaf, defensive speech "they came here to build" and the newly appointed Manitoba Indigenous Minister "They thought they were doing the right thing" comment. He got ripped to shreds on camera. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1922300483781/
Load More Replies...Don't know if everywhere, but China is doing similar things to Uyghurs right now.
Load More Replies...Poor kids. Just think, some of those kids may have died and was buried in an unmarked grave. So sad 😞
And in this day & age they are finding the unmarked graves of children that were ripped forcibly from their family and condemned to those "schools". They were beaten for using their native languages, forcibly had their hair cut & not allowed to go home. They, nor their families, were given a choice about their attendance in these "schools". The ones in the US were EXACTLY the same. We just haven't acknowledged it here.
I highly doubt they were being "forced," but of course that word had to be thrown in there for the caption in order to demonize the Christian religion. The demonization of Christians has become the norm in this country now.
I highly doubt that you know what you're talking about
Load More Replies...The last residential school in Canada actually didn't close until 1996.
Everything was torn from these children. Torn from families, torn from communities, torn from Nations. Canada and The Church (both Catholic and Anglican) need to apply more than words of regret/apology. Consult about Reconciliation and what ways can be contributed to by us to restore what can be and guided by the First Nations. And when the First Nations say we can't put something through their land (like an oil pipeline) we can't. Stick it Canadian govt. If they say no pipeline THEN THERE"S NO PIPELINE.
Oh, they did. Then died from exposure trying to make their way home...
Load More Replies...The government has admitted how wrong this was and is taking steps to make amends, the Catholic church has done nothing. The priests, nuns, and people that ran these schools should all be charged with abuse, neglect and in many cases, murder. They're still finding the graves.
I pretty sure all those you mentioned are all dead now.
Load More Replies...Absolutely soul crushing, spirit stomping actions by people who could justify and rationalize all of their abuses towards all native peoples which still goes on to this day. Peter Matthiessens books, Indian Country and In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse are great books to read on just how great our government is. BTW - The book In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse was nearly not published, the United States government actually tried to stop the book from being published at all. PRESIDENT BIDEN, FREE LEONARD PELTIER, GIVE HIM CLEMENCY!!!
They HAVE TO force them! If not their loving, forgiving God will send them to Hell to burn for eternity!
Typical Christian move - we're right and everyone else is wrong and need to be converted or we won't help.
My greatgrandpa was in a boarding school too. He died a few years back and up until his last breath he refused to speak our language or talk about the schools. It was just too traumatic for him and he couldn't tell his story even if he wanted to. I also worked for our tribal nursing home as a CNA, PAR for the PT center, and in the nursing kitchen as a kitchen assistant and honestly it was so hard since the majority of our elders are catholic but are terrified of nuns.
That's causing quite the ruckus in Canada since they found hundreds of unmarked graves of children around those schools. They were forced from their families from age 3 up, to "civilize" them. Many never returned home. The government was complicit in this for many years, as it says, right up to 1970. Pierre Trudeau, (Justin's daddy) signed off on them as well.
Hopefully none of these boys ended up in unmarked graves under the school grounds...
And this year they are beginning the unearthing of the bodies of these children so callously taken from their families and never heard from again.............
You can force people to do something your way but you can’t force them to think your way.
Actually, I believe the last school was closed in 1996. And they were started in the 1800s. The U.S. also had residential schools. I think Australia also had them.
When my mother was a child she went to Catholic school. They force her to write with her right hand and not her left hand because that was the hand of the devil. She was naturally left handed. When I got older I noticed that she did everything with her right hand except when she wrote. That's how crazy religion gets, hand of the devil, come on.
This is only one narrow view of a big issue which includes but is not limited to orphaned children of all backgrounds, unfit parents (again, regardless of background, who - even today would lose their children because of alchol consumption and physical abuse). Let's keep an eye on the truth here, Folks, and quit thinking that slanted journalism tells the complete story.
They were probably just found under the building in a mass grave as well.
one of those schools where they found hundreds of unmarked graves filled with children, i bet
I wonder how many of these coerced children were successfully brainwashed into adulthood.
I wonder how many of these children had to pretend believe in order to survive.
The head sick loser sets behind a wall in Vatican city and lectures the rest of the world on what they should do while s**t like this still happens in Catholic Schools across the world. I will never understand the idiots who listen to that idiot. It's a fake religion, you know it because the lying loser Joe Biden is a part of it and even Barry stated "Never underestimate the power of Joe to F**k S**t up." Joe even f***s up his religious choice, he f***s everything up and always has. If you voted for Biden and you expected him not to f**k s**t up, drive by your local gas station and walk into your local grocery store and please tell me again about how Barry wasn't 100% right about Joe. Believe me I hate to admit that Barry the married to an ugly b***h liberal fucktard is right about anything but he was right on the money about the loser Joe Biden. So, no surprise that Joe is a part of a fake religion that abused and murdered kids.
Since the recent and ongoing discoveries of the mass unmarked children's graves at Indian Residential Schools in Canada people are waking up to the horrendous sickening treatment of indigenous children and indigenous families and communities. Children were raped, starved, beaten, killed by same people who they kept from starving when they first came to the land. Our government is not honoring treaties, which were based on mutual respect, living and sharing the land equally. Now they get 'Rez life' and the terrible effects of alcoholism, sold by the early whiskey sellers as 'stomach medicine'. It means everyone bunderstanding there have also been mass public hangings of indigenous in the US & Canada. Awful awful atrocities.
It's so interesting seeing how the liberal community sounds when taking to one another. I'm a black Christian millennial, we're more numerous than CNN would let you believe. Seeing all of you, who im going to assume are white talk about yourselves so poorly is disturbing and sad. Have you ever heard the phrase "I am not my brother's keeper"? You can't take blame for your family, including from 100 years ago. If we could all move past it and look forward to a brighter future where we understand the mistakes of the past, then we can all prosper. One day race won't even matter. I look forward to that day.
Residential schools are a black spot on our history and part of our national shame. The atrocities that happened in these places, all at the hands of the Catholic Church and sanctioned by the federal government, are unfathomable.
Smdh. The atrocities my people have faced. All these years later we're STILL finding their remains.
This pic shows the truth. Native American people were forced to speak English or they were reprimanded, forced into boarding schools or they were savages, and genocide was prevalent. Several different tribes were obliterated by white soldier colonizers.
"...run by..."... would take too long to explain why to people who don't respect their mother tongue.
I wonder which one, and how many of them ended up buried on the grounds.
I find it disgusting and disturbing what my government and the catholic church have done and still doing to the first nations people. As far as I am concerned, they are my brother's also
Missionary-ing (and "reeducation" which I think is what they called this practice here) is just colonialism you dress up religiously so you can feel better about the destruction you cause other cultures.
After what has come to light in the last couple of years, I sadly wonder how many of those children in this photo survived.
to all the people who heard what they found in British Columbia, we are making our amends to the natives and making sure that nothing like this ever happens again
A sad fact that should not be buried. Hoping these children found their parents and overcame the brainwashing .
Wasn't just in Canada. Infuriating that other countries won't LOOK for their own natives too :(
And Satan's little old lady minion with the glowing eyes in the background: how self-righteously Christian she feels...
The nun at the back looks like she has devil eyes. Granted, it's probably not the only evil thing about her...
No, not at all like an orphanage. These kids were kidnapped by the Catholic Church with the backing of the Canadian government. Their families fought to keep them but the church decided these kids needed to be "saved" from them. Just google "Residential schools" and then try not to cry.
Load More Replies...I believe this was the Carlisle Institution in Pennsylvania. Just watched a documentary on the subject. This photo was in it. But there were three other 'indigenous' schools more to the west. Carlisle was an awful place and many tribes had their children die at that school! They are still trying to recoup remains to take back to their families to this day.
This should be shared everywhere. No one should force their beliefs on others.
I imagine they prayed to escape...religion should be banned already....it's a scourge on this planet...
Half those kids are probably buried behind this building now because "God's plan".
The last residential school closed in 1996 and they are now unearthing hundreds into the thousands of children's skeletons from unmarked mass graves in former school grounds. And these horrors have not stopped for Indigenous people. They've just changed form to overzealous CPS workers and birth alerts.
Good intentions but badly executed. Not the teachings of Jesus. This is the work of over zealous people who took for granted their authority. Bad shepherds.
How were their intentions good? How can you possibly describe kidnapping thousands of kids as "overzealous"??? This isn't "bad shepherds", this is an atrocity. Quite literally a crime against humanity.
Load More Replies...The Catholic church is the most disgusting organization on earth. Besides the Muslim church.
I'm a Canadian and I have many friends who lived this, including a foster sibling. So much damage. Yet how much did young British boys in boarding schools live through at that period of time? How about hazing in the military? Institutionalized abuse. It's sick.
I honestly don't understand the point you're trying to make. Are you saying that the church and the government kidnapping thousands of kids isn't as bad as it seems. because white kids were sent to schools similar to this but with their parent's blessings?
Load More Replies...Yep, they shaved the kids' heads. Long hair, in many first nations cultures, has personal and cultural significance, and the church decided this needed to be one of the first cultural bonds to be broken.
Load More Replies...My father in law went to a residential school as a boy. He hated it so much he run away every change he got. He was always brought back and beaten to running away. He spent half his life in "the hole". We are lucky he lives thru it but you could always feel the pain of what he went through RIP Gerry
This breaks my heart. If he was still here, I would ask you to give him a hug for me. I'm so sorry for what my ancestors and government did to his people.
Load More Replies...The last residential school did not close until 1996. This was genocide.
I wonder if any of the children in this picture ended up buried in the school yard. Religion is one of the worst human inventions.
My mother in law is in her 60s and was taken by missionaries from her home near green bay wisconsin and forced to go to a catholic boarding school in north Dakota. They weren't allowed to speak their language, Oneida Nation, and couldn't contact families. Her older brother's name was anglicized and they lost track of him for 30+ years. Im 38, was 20 when i learned how recently this happened in our country and was absolutely dumbfounded
Did she manage to track down her family? I can't even imagine.
Load More Replies...So many indigenous children were tortured in Canada by the Canadian churches. The atrocities of all nations is so sad. Common theme among them all, ignorance and hate fuled by a sense of being supreme due to a twisted taken religion.
A massive blight on the government that has miles to go to repair the monstrosity perpetrated against our native brothers and sisters. IF such repairs are even possible.
Religion of peace, no one ? Of course, applies to Islam only right...
Right. People forget what the catholic church has done all over the world.
Load More Replies...How do you know they were "forced" to pray? As a kid, that's what I looked like and I loved prayer. Don't assume intent.
Yeah, cause being kidnapped and held hostage while being brainwashed sure sounds like a choice to me. Nobody is "assuming intent" as you say. The residential schools are a well documented atrocity and a crime against humanity. If you don't know what you're talking about, please educate yourself before you talk about it. Google is free.
Load More Replies...This situation is very, very different. These children were taken from their families, beaten, starved...there is absolutely no similarity to what you're talking about.
Load More Replies...I gave a damn about these schools for over 30 years. And I don't give a damn about you going to a Catholic school. These kids were taken from their parents by FORCE and put in these schools.... schools that had a fraction of the budget and oversite that your school had. Schools where they were abused in horrible ways and beaten if they did anything to express their own language or culture. There is no comparison.
Load More Replies...it's psychological abuse. Judging from Benlensgraf and Thorfin I'm assuming you're german? If so, ask yourself, how would I feel if... I dunno... some germans were under russian occupation and forced to follow russian culture, beliefs, etc? You know, like east germany? I am sure they were just happy with it. /s
Load More Replies...I'm sure they could communicate quite well in their own language. And really, that's your take away from this??
Load More Replies...I think you need to educate yourself about the residential schools. They were NOT "just a school"; First Nations kids were forcibly taken from their families, some of them never saw their parents ever again. They were, in fact, physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. Over the past year, over 1,800 children's corpses have been found around residential schools all over Canada, many of them nameless because the people who buried them didn't really care. The kids who were "lucky" enough to live grew up without parents, without their culture, without any sense of history. They had no way of knowing how to raise families of their own, and because of this trauma. And now they are treated like trash by many other Canadians because they have the gall to have mental illnesses and issues with addictions. Who the hell wouldn't after everything they endured?? So anyway, my point is that you need to educate yourself before you make dumb comments like the one above.
Load More Replies...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
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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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