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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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How do advertisers get inside our heads?

Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War freight car: a model. Photograph, 1876.
  • Plate XIII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • American Civil War: the free and slave states, and of the unsettled territory. Wood engraving, 1856.
  • Plate LIV. Results of resections at the elbow for shot injury. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • Plate XVIII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • Plate XVII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • A large cannon pushed forwards by Furies crushes American soldiers under its wheels; representing the American Civil War. Wood engraving after J. Tenniel, 1864.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War medicine wagon produced by T. Morris Perot and Company. Photograph, 1876.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War medicine wagon produced by T. Morris Perot and Company. Photograph, 1876.
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