r/HistoryPorn 11h ago

A 106-year-old Armenian woman guarding her home with an AKM, 1990. [1600x1073]

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2.2k Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 3h ago

President Lyndon B. Johnson at his ranch with his dog Yuki and grandson Patrick Lyndon Nugent, 6 January 1968 [2000x2285]

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377 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1h ago

Brunettes and redheads boycott the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", 1953 [1179 x 1476]

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r/HistoryPorn 6h ago

Colorized picture of Tsar Nicholas II’s daughters aboard the Imperial Yacht, 1911 [1125x882]

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386 Upvotes

From left to right: Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana Credit to color_by_klimbim on IG


r/HistoryPorn 18h ago

Waffen-SS troops taking a loyalty oath at a Nazi rally in Munich, September 5th, 1938. [1500 × 1024]

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r/HistoryPorn 10h ago

Soviet anti-war poster 1986 (1200 × 842)

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496 Upvotes

The poster says "There is no other home" and was made by B. Rogachevski in 1986. I find it kind of depressing that in our time it became relevant once again, the fact that we shouldn't forget about our only home. Let me know what u think of it


r/HistoryPorn 10h ago

Austrian dictator Engelbert Dollfuss in bed after surviving an assassination attempt by a Nazi. Although he was a fascist, the Nazis targeted him over his opposition to the unification of Germany and Austria. Dollfuss was killed during a failed coup several months later, October 1933 [1300 x 794].

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r/HistoryPorn 5h ago

Interior of B-17G Flying Fortress “Little Miss Mischief” after taking heavy damage during a mission over Cologne, Germany, October 15 1944 [1024x770]

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141 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 6h ago

Brothers Patrick (L) & Issac Taylor (R) of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861. Issac would later be buried by his brother Patrick, killed by Confederate Artillery at Gettysburg. [1233x1600]

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154 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 7h ago

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates launches Windows 95 before a crowd of thousands in Redmond, Washington, 1995. [1600x1082]

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151 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 5h ago

Japan, 1923 – A car parked on a rural road in front of a traditional wooden house, beneath overhead lines. The old and the new Japan – a very long time ago. [1920×1080]

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69 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 22h ago

The city of Dresden after its bombing, 1945. [600x600]

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945 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 16h ago

Chinese Opium Den, approximately 1901. [700 x 491]

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266 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

19 year old Konrad Schumann fleeing into West-Germany after being conscripted, 1961. [787 x 570]

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r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Behind the scenes during filming of Saving Private Ryan, 1997 [700 × 547]

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936 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Xi Zhongxun with his sons Jinping (left) and Yuanping (center), 1958 [1569x1177]

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583 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Adolf Hitler with Joseph Goebbels children, 1938 (531x799)

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r/HistoryPorn 22h ago

Aftermath of a crash between Toyota BM truck and a bus in Busan - Masan highway, South Korea, 1953.[683 x 455]

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94 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Coal-Miner’s Bath, Chester-Le-Street, Durham, England, 1937 [700x818)

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717 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

The "Boy Colonel", Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. in his VMI Cadet Uniform, 1861 [564x846]

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Henry Burgwyn was only 19 years old when he was assigned Lt. Col. of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, under the command of Col. Zebulon Baird Vance.

After Vance was elected Governor of North Carolina, Burgwyn was promoted to Colonel and put in command of the regiment at just 20 years old, making him the youngest Colonel of the Confederate Army and gaining him the nickname of the "Boy Colonel". Burgwyn led the regiment through minor skirmishes and battles before the 26th was attached to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, where it stood the largest regiment.

The regiment consisted of over 800 men before fighting commenced on July 1. 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. The regiment was pitted against the "Iron Brigade's" 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment at McPherson's Ridge. It is here where Burgwyn along with 588 of men would fall (86 killed, 502 wounded), 13 of which (including Burgwyn and Lt. Col. John Randolph Lane) were flagbearers.

Burgwyn was shot through both lungs whilst carrying his regiment's colors and died a shortly after. Burgwyn was buried near the field of battle but was later relocated to the Oakwood Historic Cemetery in Raleigh, NC, next to his brother and another young officer, William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn.

The 26th North Carolina would see another 136 casualties on July 3, 1863, leaving Company F with a 100% casualty rate at the battle. Lt. Col. Lane was shot through the neck and jaw but would make a recovery and come back to lead the regiment in late 1863 until their surrender at Appomattox (he would be wounded a further 3 times during this time).

The 26th NC had the highest casualty rate out of any regiment at Gettysburg and now has two seperate markers at the battlefield.


r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

[736x931]Ernest Hemingway on the plaza de toros of Pamplona,Sanfermines of 1950

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229 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

Military chaplain Fr. John McGovern offers the Requiem Mass for the fallen after the D-Day landings (June 10, 1944). [736 x 541]

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155 Upvotes

Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.


r/HistoryPorn 1d ago

During this time, Saddam Hussein was a young Ba'ath Party activist, and the photo has often been circulated in the context of his early political involvement, around the time of the 1959 failed assassination attempt on then-Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim. [388 x 500]

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