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Too many people don’t know or care about our history. This isn’t a particularly new issue, as even in 1943, The New York Times reported that college students showed “a striking ignorance of even the most elementary aspects of United States history.” Such a predicament could be explained by the fact that history can be quite a dull and dry subject to talk about if it’s not presented in an engaging or appealing way.

To get you, our dear Pandas, more interested in history, which helps to shape our future, we curated a whole list of historical images from the Historical Pictures Facebook group in hopes that this way of learning about the past is more compelling than reading about it from textbooks. Scroll down to find the photos below, and be sure to upvote those pieces of history you found the most fascinating.

While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out a conversation with historian and writer Matthew Lewis and history travel blogger Jen Brown, aka Jaunting Jen, who kindly agreed to talk with us more about their love of history.

#1 Ww1 Tribute To The Horse Which Played A Major Role In That War And Made Awful Sacrifices

#2 A Man And His Dog In A Photo Booth, 1943. Historic Photographs

#3 Tsarevich Alexei Romanov Playing With His Dog Joy In 1917. On July 17, 1918, Alexei And His Family Were All Murdered And Joy Was The Only Survivor

#4 There Were About 180 Towers In Bologna In The 12th Century. The Tallest, 97 Meters High (320ft), Still Stands

#5 A Wwi Allied Soldier Bandages The Paw Of A Red Cross Working Dog In Flanders, Belgium, 1917

#6 A Baby Lamb Snuggles Up To A Sleeping Boy, 1940

#7 Sioux Chiefs In 1905

#8 A Young Boy Playing The Banjo With His Best Friend In The Early 1900s

#9 Daguerreotype Of A Man Wearing Tinted Glasses And Holding A Cat, C. 1850

#10 A Bicycle For Three, 1920s

#11 A 17-Year-Old Rowan Atkinson Studying Electrical Engineering At Newcastle University, 1972

#12 Ejnar Mikkelsen, A Danish Explorer, Was Photographed In 1912 After Surviving Two And A Half Years Stranded In Greenland With Fellow Explorer Iver Iversen

#13 In Chukotka, Russia, Back In 1974

#14 On December 13, 1972, During The Final Moonwalk Of Apollo 17, Astronauts Gene Cernan And Jack Schmitt Were Captured In One Of The Mission’s Most Iconic Photos

#15 A Young Girl — Barely More Than A Whisper Of Time — Dressed In Innocence, Stares Out From The Past. Beneath Her Image, A Simple Phrase: “Bonne Fête.” Two Words. Happy Birthday

#16 A Million Horses Went To War… Only 65,000 Came Back

#17 Kids Playing In The Mud, 1960s Glasgow

#18 Around 1910 Near Williston, North Dakota, A Young Girl Stands In A Meadow Pulling A Toy Dog In A Two-Wheeled Cart

#19 Charlie Chaplin Without Makeup, 1916

#20 “Dens Of Death,” New York Slums, 1888-1898

#21 Alfred Hitchcock With His Grandchildren Enjoying The Snow (1960) Images

#22 Ladder 3 Was One Of The First Firefighter Units To Show Up At The World Trade Center On September 11, 2001

#23 French Boys Holding Their Mother’s Bags, 1962

#24 What Life Was Like In 1930s Hoovervilles

#25 On Titanic Ship, The Musicians Of The Rms Titanic Actually Did Stay On The Ship, Played Music, Intending To Calm The Passengers, For As Long As They Possibly Could

#26 The Evolution Of Rvs Over The Past 115 Years

#27 Photo Of An Iceberg Found In 1912 In The Atlantic Ocean. Covered In A Scar Of Red And Black Paint, It Was Believed To Be The Iceberg That Was Struck By The Titanic On The Fateful Night

#28 Front Page Of Newspaper In 1969 When Man First Walked On The Moon

#29 Sicilian Peasant Telling An American Officer Which Way The Germans Had Gone, 1943

#30 A Mother And Daughter Portrait From Around 1900. The Object The Girl Is Holding Is A Toy Sailboat

#31 Hungarian Girl In A Walker. This Model Was Called Kati

#32 Holocaust Museum, Berlin

#33 A Man And His Dog On The Overhanging Rock In Yosemite National Park, 1924. Photograph By Educational-Bruce

#34 Feeding Polar Bears From A Tank With Condensed Milk Tins, 1950s

#35 Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, And Maj. Gen. John A. Mcclernand

#36 A Young Boy & His Rooster Friend, Columbia, South Carolina 1923

#37 Colorado Charlie Utter (At Right), A Close Friend Of Wild Bill Hickok, Is Seen Alongside Arapaho Joe Placing A Headstone On Hickok’s Original Grave In Deadwood, Dakota Territory

#38 In 1940, As A Member Of The Polish Resistance, Witold Pilecki Volunteered To Be Captured By The Germans During A Street Roundup In Warsaw So He Could Infiltrate Auschwitz

#39 The Original Fort Pitt Brewing Company Operated From 1906 To 1957. Photo From 1935, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Us)

#40 Shirley Temple With Terry, The Cairn Terrier Who Played Toto In “The Wizard Of Oz.” The Temple Film, “Bright Eyes” (1934) Was One Of The Canine’s First Movie Appearances

#41 Farm Children In Nebraska, Walking To A One-Room Schoolhouse With Lunch Pails, 1938

#42 Abraham Lincoln, Seated And Holding A Book, With His Son Tad (Thomas) Leaning On A Table

#43 The Aftermath From A B-25 Bọmber Crashing Into The Empire State Building, 1945

#44 Batman’s Special Effects In The 1960s

#45 The Face Of The Roman Baby Who Died 1800 Years Ago

#46 Brothers Lysenko, All 10 Went To The Front Of The Second World War And All 10 Returned. (Soviet Union)

#47 The Children Of Hop-Pickers Take Cover In A Trench In Kent, England While Watching A Dogfight Unfold In The Skies Above, 1940

#48 A Miner Sit Outside Santo Tomas Internment Camp Following Liberation After 4 Years Of Captivity Under The Japanese Army, February 5, 1945, Philippines

#49 On January 15th, 1919, One Of The Most Unusual And Tragic Disasters In American History Struck Boston

#50 Central Park, New York, 1900 S

#51 A Human Game Of Chess, 1924. St. Petersburg, Russia Images

#52 Hardware Store On 9th Avenue, New York, Ca. 1940

#53 The Inauguration Of Abraham Lincoln, 1865

#54 First And Ten Millionth Ford

#55 (From Left To Right) 6-Year-Old Josie, 6-Year-Old Bertha, And 10-Year-Old Sophie Who All Work As Oyster Shuckers At A Canning Company At Port Royal, South Carolina, Circa 1911

#56 In The Small Town Of Willcox, Arizona, Something Very Unusual Happened — A Bear Got Stuck On Top Of A Tall Power Pole!

#57 Two Youngsters At Fairfax High School. Los Angeles, California, 1975

#58 In 1901, The Streets Of Spitalfields, London, Were Filled With Children Known As “Nippers,” Who Were Often The Primary Caregivers For Their Younger Siblings

#59 Little Girl On Her Way To The Beach At Paddington Station, London. 1950s

#60 The Winter Of 1962/63, Often Called “The Big Freeze,” Began Abruptly On Boxing Day—26 December 1962—when Snow Started Falling Across Britain And Didn’t Let Up

#61 Mike Tyson Before His Professional Boxing Debut In 1985

#62 The Betsy Ross House, 239 Arch Street. 1900 vs. 2010

#63 Photo Of Manhattan (NYC) In 1931. Asea Of 3–5 Story Buildings Dotted With A Handful Of Skyscrapers, Including The Newly Completed Empire State Building

#64 A Receptionist Waits At Her Desk At General Motors Technical Center, 1950s Or 1960s

#65 A Girl In A Goat Cart Pauses In Front Of The Rogers Harvey House Restaurant In Arkansas, Circa 1900

#66 Mill Worker’s Children Eat Watermelon On The Porch Of Their Rented House, Six Miles North Of Roxboro. Person County, North Carolina, 1939

#67 A Boy And His Dogs Sit For A Portrait Sometime Around 1920. Probably Pennsylvania

#68 Jfk Strolling With Caroline Kennedy, 1962

#69 No Helmets, No Fuss – Just Fun! Look At That Slide! Taller Than A House And Twice As Terrifying

#70 A Boy In A Boat With Freshly Picked Blackberries At High Bridge In Jessamine County, Kentucky. July 30, 1928

#71 Man Walking Along Railroad Tracks That Have Had The Ties Destroyed By Retreating Germans With A “Schwellenpflug” Railroad Plough In Belgrade, Yugoslavia. (1945)

#72 Nine-Year-Old Nan De Gallant, Of 4 Clark St., Eastport, Maine, Works As A Cartoner At Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2, Sometimes Packing With Her Mother

#73 Jfk And Jacqueline In The Streets Of New York, 1960. Photograph By Robert Capa

#74 Abraham Lincoln On Battlefield At Antietam, Maryland, Cropped Version That Highlights Mclellan And Lincoln

#75 Iron Workers Pose For A Photo Atop The North Tower Of The World Trade Center, 1973

#76 The Irma Hotel Is A Historic Hotel Located In Cody, Wyoming, Named After Buffalo Bill Cody’s Daughter

#77 The Kuba Komet Entertainment System, Released In 1957

#78 Coal Miner’s Child In Grade School, Kentucky, Circa 1946

#79 Hoisting The Elephant

#80 Funeral Cortege Of Robert E. Lee Proceeding Toward Washington College, October 15, 1870