Leslie Bricusse's multicolored "Doctor Dolittle" calendar. Library of Congress hide caption
History
Spectators watch as fireworks erupt over the Washington Monument on July 4, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Nathan Howard/Getty Images hide caption
How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington, where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Reveal's 40 Acres and a Lie Part 1 Illustration by Michael Johnson for Mother Jones hide caption
Some freed people actually received '40 acres and a mule.' Then it got taken away.
In 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, left, and his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence celebrate after accepting the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images hide caption
A general view of the the archaeological excavations of Herculaneum in southern Italy. Marco Cantile/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Anna Lee Dozier purchased this vase at a thrift store about 10 minutes from her Washington, D.C., home. It turned out to be an authentic Mayan artifact that dates to between 200 AD to 800 AD. Anna Lee Dozier hide caption
DJ Frankie Knuckles plays at the Def Mix 20th Anniversary Weekender at Turnmills nightclub on May 6, 2007 in London, England. Claire Greenway/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe hide caption
Archaeologists on a multi-year restoration project found 35 bottles of cherries and berries in five different pits in the Mount Vernon cellar. George Brown/Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association hide caption
The main exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Friday June 14, 2024. Jared Soares for NPR hide caption
Much Ado About First Folios — the world's largest Shakespeare collection reopens
Part of a welcome for the United States-Soviet commission on Korea on their arrival in Pyongyang on July 23, 1947, was this parade of Korean communists carrying huge portraits of Josef Stalin and Kim Il Sung. The commission visited Pyongyang, 165 miles north of Seoul, for the purpose of getting views of political groups on the prospecting. U.S. Army Signal Corps/AP hide caption
Author Jules Gill-Peterson poses next to her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny Headshot by Kadji Amin and book cover design by Angela Lorenzo for Verso hide caption
Sir Ernest Shackleton is shown as he arrived in New York on the Aquitania on a hurried business trip to Canada in January 1921. The wreck of the last ship belonging to the famed explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. File photo/AP hide caption
U.S. World War II veteran Harold Terens, 100, left, and Jeanne Swerlin, 96, arrive to celebrate their wedding at the town hall of Carentan-les-Marais, in Normandy, northwestern France, on Saturday. Jeremias Gonzalez/AP hide caption
An aerial view of Pointe du Hoc, a clifftop in Cricqueville-en-Bessin, on the French western Norman coast, taken in October 2018. Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Christophe Receveur, of France, unfurls an American flag he bought six months ago in Gettysburg, Pa., to mark D-Day on Thursday on Utah Beach, Normandy. John Leicester/AP hide caption
American soldiers huddle inside a landing craft approaching Utah Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on D-Day. U.S. Army Photo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption