Images

Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, c. late 19th century. Private collection. Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia after serving as commissioner to France during the American...

Annunciation, tempera on panel by Fra Angelico, 1430. Museo della Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Valdarno.

A 1937 photograph showing the dramatic stage lighting used at the Nuremberg rallies in Nazi Germany. (National Archives at College Park)

A photograph of the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) speaking to the crowds at the Nuremberg rally of September 1935. (Imperial War Museums)

An infographic about Shichifukujin, or the Seven Lucky Gods (Seven Gods of Fortune) of Japan, a revered group of deities associated with prosperity and good fortune. Each god represents different blessings, including wealth, happiness, and...

A 1938 photograph of the ruined Ohel Yaakov synagogue in Munich, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November, 1938, and followed...

A November 1938 photograph showing Jews under mass arrest in Baden-Baden, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November, 1938, and...

A photograph showing a smashed Jewish-owned shop in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November, 1938. (UK National Archives...

A photograph showing smashed Jewish-owned shops in Magdeburg, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November, 1938. (German Federal...

A photograph of Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Jew living in Paris who shot and killed Ernst von Rath, a secretary in the German embasssy there as a protest for how Jews werre being treated in Nazi Germany. The Nazis used the murder as...