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A 1902 photograph of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). The kaiser was roundly blamed for starting the First World War (1914-18) with his persistently aggressive foreign policy. As a consequence, after the war, he was obliged to...

William Still Historical Marker at 244 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While living here, William Still was an Underground Railroad agent who helped slaves escape and kept records so...

Engraving of Jane Johnson, from The Underground Railroad, by William Still, 1872.

Runaway Slave Poster, 1837, republished in "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom" by Wilbur Henry Siebert, Albert Bushnell Hart Edition: Published by Macmillan, 1898, pg. 26.

The title page of Ben Jonson's works, The Works of Benjamin Jonson, published in 1616.

Portrait of Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), oil on panel by an unknown artist, 1612. Artwork photographed by Antonia Reeve. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

An imagined conversation between William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid Tavern, illustration from A book for Shakespeare plays and pageants by Orie Latham Hatcher, 1916.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English poet and playwright who flourished during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, oil on panel copy of an original painting by Abraham van Blijenberch, c. 1617. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA. After the escaped slave Wallace Turnage found freedom at the Union Fort Powell, he was taken to nearby Fort Gaines and was employed as a cook by the officer Julius...

A locomotive crossing the Niagara Suspension Bridge over the Niagara River. Anna Maria Weems was safe after she crossed over the Niagara River into Canada. Image...