History

Walter Cronkite (right) listens as Dr. J. Presper Eckert (center) describes the functions of the UNIVAC I computer he helped develop in the early 1950s. AP hide caption

Untitled, by South African artist Gavin Jantjes, is one of the works in the "African Cosmos" exhibition. National Museum of African Art hide caption

The Bark winds through southeastern Wisconsin's "Kettle Moraine" — small hills called drumlins and deep glacial lakes known as kettles. It's part of the Mississippi watershed. Liam O'Leary hide caption

The John B. Hayes Federal Building in Wilkesboro, N.C., is among several federal courthouses being closed in the South. Michael Tomsic/WFAE hide caption

With the advent of radio and television, presidential charisma became a more important personality characteristic. Above, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is rated one of the most charismatic presidents; John F. Kennedy; Bill Clinton. Getty Images hide caption

McGovern listens to a constituent in 1974. Jim Mone/AP hide caption

Mao Zedong signs Sidney Rittenberg's copy of The Little Red Book during a gathering of party leaders in Beijing on May 1, 1967, at the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution. Courtesy of Sidney Rittenberg hide caption

Crowds watch as Clos Montmartre's grapes are harvested during its annual October wine festival. Jacque Brinon/AP hide caption

Dick Colon, one of the White House Boys, walks through grave sites near the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla. Several men who suffered abuse and severe beatings believe the crosses mark the graves of boys who were killed at the school, victims of punishments that went too far. Phil Coale/AP hide caption

A boy chooses fruit from a stall as Jerusalem market vendors swirl around him. Jonathan Lovekin/Ten Speed Press hide caption