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One photographer's heartbreaking first-person account of WWI's Western Front

After years stranded in Antarctica, Frank Hurley returned to find civilization tearing itself apart.

The art of giraffe diplomacy

This article by Philip McCouat tells the remarkable story of the African giraffe who walked across France and became a pawn in an international poewer struggle

The USSR and Nazi Germany held a military parade in Brest after the capture of Poland 84 years ago. Russia calls it a “liberation campaign”. Then-reality in 15 pictures

We remind you how the USSR and Germany occupied Poland, how they held their most famous joint military parade, and how the NKVD bodies shot tens of thousands of captured Poles in Katyn.

A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them Most

In the five years Baghdad was my home, I got to work (or just hang out) with some of the finest news photographers in the...

DOCUMERICA Project by the Environmental Protection Agency

For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s. The U.S. National Archives digitized more than 15,000 photographs from the series Documerica (Local ID 412-DA) and included them in our online catalog. Our Web site has quick catalog search links for featured DOCUMERICA topics, locations, and photographers. Feeling inspired by Documerica? Join the EPA's Earth Day State of the Environment photo project! Learn more at www.flickr.com/groups/ourenvironment.

Where Basketball was Invented: The History of Basketball

Basketball was Invented by Springfield College instructor and graduate student James Naismith in 1891.