Images

A Second World War (1939-45) photograph of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in Germany, taken during an American reconnaissance flight.

This map illustrates the scale and scope of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, a systematic, state-organized persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews, alongside millions of other victims, by Nazi Germany and its...

Seminole Woman, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1838. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Os-ce-o-lá, The Black Drink, a Warrior of Great Distinction, portrait by George Catlin, 1838. Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

British Isles in 10th century represented with the coastline at the time.

The tomb of King Aethelstan (r. 924-939) in Malmesbury Abbey, Malmesbury, England. There is nothing in the tomb beneath the statue, the relics of the king having been lost in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

A May 1944 photograph of women prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Poland which was set up by the SS to murder those identified as enemies of Nazi Germany, especially Jewish people.

The coyote (canis latrans), the animal on which many Native American myths are based. Photograph attributed to George Harrison of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2007.

Anthropomorphic Coyote trickster, from North American Indigenous mythology, canoeing up the river. Illustration from page 84 of Indian Days of the Long Ago by F. N. Wilson and Edward S. Curtis, Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1915.

Demonstration in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, 11 December 1978. Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies.