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The death of Dr. Joseph Warren, one of Massachusetts' most influential revolutionary leaders, at the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775. Oil on canvas painting by John Trumbull, 1786. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Charge of the British soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1775). Painting by Howard Pyle, c. 1897. The original was owned by the Delaware Art Museum but was presumed stolen in 2001.

Chersonesus was a Greek colony established in the 5th century BCE by Dorians from Heraclea Pontica on the northern shores of the Black Sea in what is now the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula (modern-day Sevastopol in Ukraine). Chersonesus...

The inauguration of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1757. Oil on canvas by Valery Jacobi, 1889.

Histria (or Istros) was a Greek colony near the mouth of the Danube (known as Ister in Ancient Greek) on the western coast of the Black Sea in modern-day Romania, established by settlers from Miletus in the middle of the 7th century BCE...

General Thomas Gage, who, in the early days of the American Revolution, served as commander-in-chief of all British armies in North America and as military governor of Massachusetts. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1788...

The title page of an early edition of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), first published in 1776. (John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library)

A 1779 oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds of the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Private Collection)

A lithographic print by H. Alken titled The Brighton Mail on Sunday, December 25, 1836. Printed by R. Havell of London. (Private Collection)

The title page of Treatise on Human Nature by the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776). A key text of the Enlightenment, it was first published in 1740. The quote from Tacitus reads: "It is the rare happiness of these days that one...