Images

A miniature model (diorama) of the Pawnee Morning Star Ritual from the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Map of the tribal territory of the Pawnee and other Native American nations in Nebraska and Kansas prior to Euro-American colonization.

An illustrated portrait of a young Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) playing the cello. Made in 1850.

A photograph of the composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Taken by Nadar in the 1860s. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)

St. Eleonora (c. 1223-1291), oil on canvas by Johann Michael Rottmayr, 1716. National Gallery of Slovenia, Slovenia

Children playing ball games. Marble Roman artwork of the second quarter of the 2nd century CE. Probably a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus. Louvre, Paris.

The signature page of the Olive Branch Petition of 5 July 1775, the last attempt made by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a war with Great Britain. This is a scan of an original photo from the US Library of Congress.

Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) from the Moralized Bible, Illuminated Manuscript, c. 1227-1234 The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, New York

Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215–1275), Illuminated Manuscript Unknown Artist, c. 1300-1308. Taken from the Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England. (British Library, London)

Portrait of Patrick Henry (1736-1799), a Virginian statesman and Founding Father of the United States. Oil on canvas by George Bagby Matthews after an original by Thomas Sully, circa 1891. United States Congress Collection, Washington...