Images

A U.S. newspaper front page declaring the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was signed by the victors of WWI and the loser Germany on 28 June 1919.

Pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. Students were required to wear uniforms and had to surrender traditional attire upon their arrival.

A cartoon highlighting the principal weakness of the League of Nations, that the United States, despite being instrumental in founding it in 1919, did not become a member. (From Punch magazine, December, 1919)

A photograph showing (left to right) Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, respectively. They are about to...

A photograph taken in September 1938 showing the adulation of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in Bad Godesberg, Germany. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing the explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw following the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941.

Early Elamite clay tablet with numerical signs found in Tappeh Yahya, Kerman, dating to c. 3100 to 2900 BCE (Yahya Period IVc). National Museum of Iran, Tehran, inv. no. 4065. Photo by...

A map illustrating the growing instability in Europe in the lead-up to World War II, capturing the aggressive territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the failure of appeasement. Between 1935 and 1939, a series...

A 1944 photograph of Albert Speer (1905-81), German Minister of Armaments, Erhard Milch (1892-72), responsible for German aircraft production, and Willy Messerschmitt (1898-78), the aircraft designer. (German Federal...

Monument erected in 1905 to commemorate the Battle of Beecher Island of 1868 known to the Cheyenne as "The Fight Where Roman Nose Was Killed." The image is incorrectly dated to 1899. A wooden monument was erected at the...