Images

This map illustrates the course of the War of 1812 (1812-1815), a conflict between the United States and Great Britain driven by trade restrictions, the impressment of American sailors, and disputes over territorial expansion. Native American...

Ball Play Dance, Choctow, depicting the ceremonial Native American dance performed prior to a game of stickball, oil on canvas by American artist George Catlin, 1834. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

A 1937 photograph of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the dictator of Nazi Germany (1933-45). (German Federal Archives)

The Trinity Altarpiece panels, oil on oak panels by Hugo van der Goes, 1478. The four panels were probably the wings of a triptych. The open wings showed James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark before the Virgin. The closed wings...

St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Geograph Britain and Ireland.

James II of Scotland (r. 1437-1460) and Mary of Guelders (d. 1463), whose marriage in 1449 strengthened the ties between Scotland and Flanders.

Battle of Hemmingstedt (1500), wall painting by Max Friedrich Koch in the assembly hall of a public building (Kreishaus) of the former Süderdithmarschen District in Meldor, 1910.

Dithmarschen in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, 1570

House in Burg, Dithmarschen. Photographed in 2019.

Roman marble relief with harbor scene, photographed at the Exhibition: The Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces, Rome, 2021.