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A November 1938 photograph showing Jews under mass arrest in Baden-Baden, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10...

A photograph showing a smashed Jewish-owned shop in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November...

A photograph showing smashed Jewish-owned shops in Magdeburg, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November...

A photograph of Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Jew living in Paris who shot and killed Ernst von Rath, a secretary in the German embasssy there as a protest for how Jews werre being treated in Nazi Germany. The Nazis used...

USS Constitution engages the French frigate La Vengeance in February 1800 during the Quasi-War. Image by Benson Lossing, from Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History, 1912.

Signing of the Treaties of Alliance between the US and France in 1778, which led to France's entry into the American Revolutionary War. Reproduction of an oil on canvas painting by Charles...

The vision of a new Jerusalem as described in the book of Revelation, folio 55 recto, MS A. II. 42, Bamberger Apokalypse, c. 1000. Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg.

Scenes from the book of Revelation (Apocalypse of John), stained glass window of the Auxerre Cathedral, c. 1240.

Book of Revelation, folio 6v and 7r of illuminated manuscript Fr 403 by Maître de Sarum and Hennequin de Bruges, 1240-1250. National Library of France, Paris.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, painted in Paris, c. 1785. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.