Young baseball players shake hands after a game in Keshena, Wisconsin, in the early 1970s. Keshena is a large community on the Menominee Indian Reservation.

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Young baseball players shake hands after a game in Keshena, Wisconsin, in the early 1970s. Keshena is a large community on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
Photograph by Steve Raymer, Nat Geo Image Collection

30 astonishing pictures found from the Nat Geo archives

We’re in the midst of a historic moment that, one way or another, will impact each of us. For this month’s collection of images, I wanted to examine parallels between the past and the present.

An image by Clinedinst Studio shows thousands of women marching in 1913 in Washington, D.C., for the right to vote, shedding light on the fight for women’s equality in a way reminiscent of today’s protest marches.

Today, we continue to push the boundaries of space exploration—reminding me of James A. Sugar’s photo of aspiring astronauts in 1989 practicing weightlessness on a NASA training aircraft.

And just like families in decades past, we’re concerned about what the future holds for our children. An

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