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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...

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...

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...

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.

Historical marker for Igbo Landing or Ibo Landing, unveiled 24 May 2022. On St. Simons, Georgia, US, near the northwest corner for Fredrica Road and Sea Island Road.

Slave market in Wall Street, New York City, c. 1730. Drawing published in A History of the American People (1902-1903), attributed to Harry Fenn. New York Public Library Digital Collections.