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Jackie Kennedy at JFK's funeral, November 1963 history

JFK’s Funeral: Photos From a Day of Shock and Grief

American Pvt. Joe Demler, photographed on the day that the notorious prison camp, Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, was liberated by Allied troops, spring 1945. history

The POW Who Lived: Joe Demler, WWII’s ‘Human Skeleton’

Neighborhood reduced to rubble by atomic bomb blast, Hiroshima, 1945. history

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos From the Ruins

Photo from a public "genius school" for 3-to-11-year-olds at New York's Hunter College, 1948. history

LIFE Goes to a School For Kid Geniuses, 1948

Mississippi sharecropper, 1936. history

Under a Mississippi Sun: Eisenstaedt’s Images of Sharecroppers

Near Sochaczew during the German invasion of Poland, 1939. history

World War II Erupts: Color Photos From the Invasion of Poland, 1939

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1949. history

LIFE at the Circus: Behind the Scenes With Ringling Brothers, 1949

Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital near Fort Riley, Kans., in this 1918 file photo. history

The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Scenes From a Cataclysm

Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming excited mental cases. With their bodies greased, the patients can remain in the baths for hours, gradually fall asleep." history

Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938

Teenage couple listening to records and having a snack of milk and cookies. history

LIFE With Postwar Teens: Photos of Fads From Around the U.S. in 1948

League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany. history

A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making Machinery, in Color

Hubert Alyea, 1953 history

The Science Teacher You Wish You Had

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