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The boundary of Poland was redrawn again after World War II, with territories East of the Curzon Line, a huge part of the pre-war territory, given to the Soviets and German territory, East of the Oder and Nesse Rivers, given to Poland in reparation.

This was a color photograph taken of the hospital during 1947, when the students stayed for two nights.

Rev. Howard Brooks was the USC associate director who communicated frequently with Dorothea Jones during the hospital project.

In the summer of 1947, Henry N. Cobb, then a student at the Harvard GSD, joined a group that travelled throughout Europe to observe reconstruction efforts, particularly in Poland. In September, the group stayed at the hospital in Piekary.

This map illustrates the "Iron Curtain" that divides countries of NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Over the course of the long nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of tsarist subjects left the Russian empire and resettled in the major urban centers and university towns of western Europe. This series of interactive visualizations explores the…

This satellite image from Nasa's Earth Observatory displays the stunning contrast in landscape along the border between China and Kazakhstan.

The houses in Braim were based on the Garden City ideal and the planner of the city, James M. Wilson. The are of Braim was also known as the 'bungalow area' and housed the British personnel and was located south-west of the refinery area. It was also…

The houses in Braim were designed to house workers and aimed to appease the 'local' architecture and needs. These houses were much smaller than the ones in Bawarda and Braim, which housed 'foreigners'. The houses were designed as a series of row…