1879: Frederick Douglass
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
Features
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Life and Death on the Eastern Front
Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring share rare colour photographs from the Second World War
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights
After the amphibious assault by the Union army two days prior, both armies, unknowing of the carnage to come, prepared for battle
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock
Illustrated eyewitness accounts of the Union's amphibious assault of Fredericksburg on Thursday, December 11th, 1862
1963: TWA Flight Center
An iconic, innovative 1960s airport terminal hailed as a critically-acclaimed architectural masterpiece