History

History is the study and the documentation of the past. Events before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory.

Ben Parker
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Glass-Plate Negative by the National Photo Company

Times boy on bicycle. Glass-plate negative by the National Photo Company, [1921]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Amelia Harry
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Men of Fort Story Operate an Azimuth Instrument

Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle of splash in sea-target practice, Fort Story, Va. Color transparency by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942.

Amelia Harry
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Resting Bedouins and the Grand

History is the study and the documentation of the past. Events before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory.

Amelia Harry
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Kennedy Receives a Briefing by Major Rocco Petrone

President John F. Kennedy receives a briefing by Major Rocco Petrone at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex