Images

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), photo by Mathew Benjamin Brady, c. 1849. National Archives and Records Administration.

A photograph of the leading Nazi Hermann Göring (1893-1946) at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-6. (Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)

Detail of the Odysseus and the Sirens mosaic from Dougga (Tunisia) depicting Odysseus' encounter with the Sirens. The three Sirens stand on a rocky island. The creatures are depicted with the legs and wings of birds and hold a variety of...

A photograph of Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-34) under police arrest. Charged by the Nazi government with starting the Reichstag Fire of 27 February 1933, van der Lubbe was found guilty and executed. (National Archives of the Netherlands)

A photograph of Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-34), a communist charged by the Nazi government with starting the Reichstag Fire of 27 February 1933. Found guilty, van der Lubbe was executed. (National Archives of the Netherlands)

Attic kylix (drinking cup) with a scene depicting Athena rescuing the Thessalonian hero Jason from the jaws of the dragon of Colchis. The Colchian dragon was a massive serpent, immortal and sleepless, that guarded the Golden Fleece, which...

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife of US Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas portrait by Ralph Earl, 1787. Museum of the City of New York.

Alexander Hamilton, oil on canvas portrait by John Trumbull, 1792. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This map illustrates the geopolitical situation in Europe in the lead-up to the Second World War (1939-45) as authoritarianism and totalitarianism were on the rise across the continent, fueled by political instability, economic crises, and...

A photograph of the Reichstag Fire of 27 February 1933, an arson attack on the German parliament blamed on a communist anarchist Marinus van der Lubbe but more likely the work of the Nazi party’s paramilitary group the Sturmabteilung (SA...