History is more than just innovations and triumphs. In truth, much of it involves numerous instances of brutality, warfare, and other unsettling, regrettable realities.
Take a look below at some of the most haunting moments from history.
A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941.
Carl McCunn was an American photographer lost and fatally stranded in the Alaskan wilderness. He was ignored by a state trooper plane because he raised his fist, a sign that all was okay.The final picture of Buffalo Bill Cody, a few days before he passed away on January 10, 1917.A chimney sweep and his assistant, London c.1877.Rural homestead life in 1927. When a woman wasn’t able to breastfeed or passed during childbirth, when a wet nurse was not available, a goat nursemaid was brought in to save the infant’s life.Women marching against the mandatory hijab law imposed by the Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, 1979A boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1945. He lost both his parents in the raid.The two siblings shown here are experiencing the thrill of an electrical storm at Sequoia National Park in California around 1975. Shortly after this picture was taken, they were struck by lightning. Both survived.Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
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Children going to a 12-hour night shift in the United States, 1908Anne Frank’s father Otto, revists the attic where he and his family hid.Richard Nixon at his wife’s funeral, June 26, 1993Che Guevara’s last moments. Bolivia, 9 October 1967. “They shall not grow old”: two South Vietnamese child soldiers sharing a smoke as they wait for a coming North Vietnamese attack, Vietnam war, 1965-1975Replica dog tags of every soldier who never made it back from Vietnam.People on display at the Coney Island Human Zoo in 1904.A father looks for his two missing sons during the Kosovo war in 1999. He would later find them.The survivors the 1972 Andes plane crash.Two homeless men squat in the shadow of the recently completed World Trade Center in 1975.The last photo ever of Nikola Tesla, 1943Segregationists harass 6 year old Ruby Bridges with a doll in a coffin.Windows on the World, the restaurant on top of the WTC North Center, 1976.Shells from an Allied bombardment all fired in a single day on German lines in 1916The first day of class after federal courts mandated busing to end de facto segregation in Boston’s public school system, September 1974. Valerie Banks was the only student to show up for her geography class.Women and girls using Radium paint, not knowing the health issues that would soon follow. 1922.Russian conscript with his family before being deployed to the front, Karachev, Bryansk, Russia, 1943.
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