An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

A single image can tell the story of a country. In this video, we explore the most famous photographs in Canadian history—from powerful wartime captures to breathtaking natural scenes and ...

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Months after the release of a film that questions who took an iconic Vietnam War image of a naked girl ... it turned out to be one of the most famous images of the century. Ut, who has strongly ...

Months after the release of a film that questions who took an iconic Vietnam War image of a naked girl ... Nick Ut that became one of the defining images of the 20th century.