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A September 1941 photograph of Red Army soldiers in the defensive trenches built during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945...

A map showing the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the Second World War (1939-45). The siege, more accurately described...

A photograph of civilians in an air raid shelter during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the Second World War...

A photograph of a woman working in an armaments factory during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the Second World...

The church of Oradour-sur-Glane where 349 women, as well as all but one of the children present that day in the village, were cruelly murdered on 10 June 1944 by soldiers of the Waffen SS Das Reich division. The Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre...

Thomas Roderick Dew (l. 1802-1846), 13th President of William & Mary College and pro-slavery advocate, oil on canvas by William Garl Browne Jr. Muscarelle Museum of Art.

John Floyd (l. 1783-1837), 25th Governor of Virginia. Portrait by William Garl Brown, 1850.

Harriet Jacobs (l. c. 1813-1897) author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Photograph by C. M. Gilbert, Gilbert Studios, Washington, D.C., 1894, restored by Adam Cuerden.

Frederick Douglass (l. c. 1818-1895), abolitionist and author. Photograph by George Kendall Warren, 1879. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

James Covey, interpreter in the Amistad case, illustration from page 9 of A History of the Amistad Captives by John Warner Barber, 1840.