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Hippie Trail: A Brief History of the Travel Pioneers

Barry EganJuly 26, 2017

In the 1960s and 70s, with free love coursing through the air, hippies travelled overland from Europe to Turkey and through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal a... Read More.

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Pierre Jamet: Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps (1930s)

Barry EganApril 7, 2017

Pierre Jamet (May 24, 1910, Saint-Quentin, France – 17 August,2000, Belle Île, France) was a singer and photographer. He sang in the choir of the Association of... Read More.

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Wayne Miller: Chicago’s South Side 1946-48

Barry EganMarch 25, 2017

The photographs of Wayne Miller born in 1918 in Chicago, almost like a diary of the Afro-Americans who lived sixty years ago in the south of Chicago, in “suburb... Read More.

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Robert Capa: D-DAY

Barry EganDecember 7, 2016

It never occurred to me until later that in order to take that picture, Capa had to get ahead of that soldier and turn his back on the action. - John Morris,... Read More.

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Human Population Through Time – How Humanity Took Over The World

Barry EganNovember 27, 2016

The Black Death. The Second World War. The Industrial Revolution. The invention of modern medicine. Major events like these have had huge impacts on the world’s... Read More.

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Internet Archive – The History of the Internet

Barry EganNovember 7, 2016

The Internet Archive is best known for its historical library of the web, preserving more than 400 billion web pages dating back to 1996. Yet, its 25 petabytes ... Read More.

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History in Black and White – The LIFE Photography Collection

Barry EganOctober 25, 2016

The LIFE Photography Collection: After the first issue of LIFE was released almost exactly 80 years ago, in November of 1936, the magazine quickly established i... Read More.

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Eleanor Ambos: An Empire Built on Playing House

WWF: World Tiger Day Campaign

Ghosts of the Arctic: Searching for Polar Bears

Music Collection

Back to Mine: Röyksopp

Selda Bağcan: Turkish Psych-Folk Hero

Jazz Greats in Paris

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Planet Earth: Blue Planet II | Radiohead & Hans Zimmer

Picturing the Country’s Oddest Laws

Hippie Trail: A Brief History of the Travel Pioneers

Pierre Jamet: Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps (1930s)

Wayne Miller: Chicago’s South Side 1946-48

Robert Capa: D-DAY

Human Population Through Time – How Humanity Took Over The World

Internet Archive – The History of the Internet

History in Black and White – The LIFE Photography Collection