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From left to right: Cecile, the dilettante, learns easily but loses interest quickly; Yvonne is the leader with initiative; Marie has caught up with her sisters in growth but is still the slowest of the five; Annette has developed the most marked musical talent; Emilie, left-handed, is the prankster." history

The Dionne Quintuplets: Little Girls Lost in the Harsh Glare of Fame

Chicago, 1944. history

Chicago: LIFE in a Great City

American Gen. Omar Bradley in June 1969, looking out over the area of Omaha Beach where, 25 years earlier, he came ashore the day after the first Allied troops invaded France during Operation Overlord. history

Ghosts of D-Day: Omar Bradley at Omaha Beach, June 1969

U. S. Coast Guardsmen assist a wounded Marine returning from the fight on Iwo Jima, 1945. history

World War II, After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell

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Behind the Picture: RFK’s Assassination, Los Angeles, 1968

Fifteen-year-old Louis Cousins, Maury High School, Norfolk, Va., 1959. history

After ‘Brown v. Board of Education’: Portraits of Integration, Virginia, 1959

Calvin R. Patrick, 18, Army, Pfc., Houston, Texas history

Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969

Silhouettes of West Berliners waving to their relatives on the other side are cast across the Berlin Wall. history

Berlin Wall: Photos From the Birth of a Brutal Divide

Lance Cpl. James C. Farley, helicopter crew chief, Vietnam, 1965. history

Sudden Death in Vietnam: ‘One Ride With Yankee Papa 13’

John and Robert Kennedy at a hearing of a Senate select committee on labor racketeering, 1957. history

JFK: Portraits of a Political Superstar, 1947-1963

President Harry Truman jubilantly holds up a Chicago newspaper emblazoned with the (erroneous) headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In fact, Truman handily beat New York governor Thomas Dewey in the tight 1948 presidential election. history

Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’

Gay Pride, 1971. history

Silent No More: Early Days in the Fight for Gay Rights

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