DISCOVER IMAGES

[title] image Counterfactual History in a New Video Game
BioShock InfiniteIrrational Games
[title] image "Her Program's Progress"
This Associated Press photograph was taken in 1966 to accompany an article by Frances Lewine about Lady Bird Johnson's beautification project, entitled, “Her Program’s Progress.”
[title] image Pinching and Swiping, or How I Won the Digital War
Battle of the BulgeShenandoah StudioiPad, version 1.0.3
[title] image “You have died of dysentery” - History According to Video Games
Right now millions of people worldwide are reliving the American Revolution through a new historical fiction. This fictionalized revolution, however, is not televised on PBS, nor is it directed by Steven Spielberg or written by
[title] image Exorcism
As I was searching for illustrations for my forthcoming book, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, I came across a reproduction of a detail of the painting shown here.
[title] image A History of the World in 100 Objects (2011)
Objects not only inform us about the time and place when they were made, but often have subsequent biographies of use that shed light on later historical developments. 
[title] image Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Air
The history of aviation is filled with heroes and their machines.

DISCOVER TEXTS

[title] image The Prisoner of Events in Vietnam
In the months following his resounding electoral triumph over Barry Goldwater in November 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson made momentous decisions to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.  Most consequentially, he ordered the bombing of North Vietnam: first retaliatory strikes following a National Liberation Front attack on the U.S.
[title] image CIA Study: “Consequences to the US of Communist Domination of Mainland Southeast Asia,” October 13, 1950
Before 1948, the Cold War was largely confined to Europe and the Middle East, areas that both U.S. and Soviet leaders considered vital to their nations’ core foreign policy objectives after the Second World War.  By 1950, however, the Cold War had spread to Asia.
[title] image Could a Muslim - or a Catholic or a Jew - Be President? A 1788 Constitutional Debate
The Constitution’s ban on religious tests prompted the nation’s first debate in 1788 about whether a Muslim – or a Catholic or a Jew – might one day become president of the United States.  William Lancaster, a delegate to the North Carolina convention to ratify the Constitution, worried: “But let us remember that we form a government for millions not yet in existence.
[title] image An "Act of Justice"?
We knowed freedom was on us, but we didn’t know what was to come with it. We thought we was going to get rich like the white folks.  We thought we was going to be richer than the white folks, ‘cause
[title] image Work Left Undone: Emancipation was not Abolition
There are two great legal milestones in the destruction of slavery in the United States—the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, passed by Congress and ratified by the states in 1865.
[title] image The Emancipation Proclamation reaches Savannah
First African Baptist church December 31, 1862, fell on a Wednesday, and that night members of Savannah’s First African Baptist Church held their traditional New Year’s Eve
[title] image 1863 in 1963
The time has come, Mr. President, to let those dawn-like rays of freedom, first glimpsed in 1863, fill the heavens with the noonday sunlight of complete human dignity.