Today BuzzFeed published a post entitled The Story Of Egypt’s Revolution In "Jurassic Park" GIFs. This struck some as glib and in poor taste. Not us! Here are our pitches for future GIFstory lessons.

  • What a BOER: Watch Ben Stein's timeless character from Ferris Bueller's Day Off roll his eyes—fifteen times!—at these graphic accounts from the Second Boer War!
  • I Contain Multitudes (Of Hair): Nascent Bohemianism in late-Victorian New York City, as explained by 36 GIFs from Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" video.
  • You were still trading Gushers for Swiss Rolls when our 42nd president was impeached, but do you know exactly what Bill Clinton DID with Monica Lewinsky? Let this 10-hour loop of Bill Nye's theme song guide you through the 445-page Starr Report!
  • When Eisenhower warned us of the creeping military industrial complex in 1961, he could have summed it all up with this earnest video of a turtle ejaculating into a clam shell.
  • Zach Attack! Have a seat at Zach and Kelly's favorite booth at The Maxx and let them explain how the successful civilian prosecution of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui shows that military tribunals only lead to a deeply flawed justice system.
  • Did the Lochner Era of the Supreme Court change legal formalism forever? These birthday cake candle #FAILS tell the tale!
  • WTF: These 6 Dorf on Golf GIFs cut Milton Friedman's trickle-down theory down to size!
  • Peace in the the Middle East has eluded the region so many times—it's almost like Jack never stops slipping out of Rose's grasp into the icy waters of conflict! What if a two-state solution was the biggest luxury oceanliner of all time, and American-backed coups were icebergs?
  • Marat to Trot! Can these Milo & Otis GIFs temper the bourgeois' murderous indulgences with Thermidorian countermeasures of Cuteness?
  • The wrongful internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was shameful and a great injustice—let John Cusack make things right with his Boombox of Deep Remorse.
  • Tropic of Pixar: Watch this supercut of Buzz Lightyear quotes edited down to read Henry's Miller's classic Rosy Crucifixion trilogy.