Images

The Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (435–534 CE) emerged as one of the most significant post-Roman states in the western Mediterranean. Founded after the Vandals, a Germanic people originally from Central Europe, and the Alans, an Iranian-speaking...

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776, oil on canvas by Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq, c. 1873. White House Cabinet Room, Washington, D.C.

The false passport which Adolf Eichmann (1906-62) used to escape from Europe to Argentina in 1950. Eichmann had been a senior member of the SS and a key figure in the transportation of Jewish people to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

A photograph taken in April 1945 following the Allied capture of the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany. The 13,000 bodies Allied soldiers found were to be buried in mass graves. 60,000 emaciated prisoners were released...

Adolf Eichmann (1906-62) during his confinement prior to his trial for war crimes in Israel in 1961-2. Eichmann had been a senior member of the SS and a key figure in the transportation of Jewish people to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust...

The Roman incorporation of Gaul began with the campaigns of Julius Caesar (58–51 BCE) and resulted in the gradual transformation of a diverse Celtic region into an integral part of the Roman world. By c. 200 CE, Gaul was organized into a...

A c. 1942 photograph of Adolf Eichmann (1906-62), a senior member of the SS and a key figure in the transportation of Jewish people to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

Coyote in the snow, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Photograph by Yathin S. Krishnappa, 2009. The coyote features as a supernatural trickster figure in the lore of many Native American nations, including the Shasta people.

Mount Shasta in the Siskiyou Mountains, California, USA. Photograph by Greg Schechter of San Francisco, USA, 2012. Mount Shasta is considered sacred by several Native American nations including the Achomawi, Atsugewi, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc...

A photograph of Adolf Eichmann (1906-62) during his trial for war crimes in Israel in 1961. Eichmann, a senior member of the SS, had been a key figure in the transportation of Jewish people to Nazi death camps. (National Photo Collection...