Images

A reconstruction of brick bunks at Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp which was located in German-occupied Poland. Four to seven prisoners had to sleep in each compartment. Over one million people died in this complex at the hands...

An aerial view of the Auschwitz I part of the complex of labour and extermination camps in Poland known as Auschwitz. Over one million people died in this complex at the hands of the Nazi SS. Auschwitz was one of the main instruments of the...

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), photographed by Harris & Ewing, Inc., c. 1905-15. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine, USA. Illustration from What to see in America by Clifton Johnson, 1919.

Glooscap monument, Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia. Photograph by Madereugeneandrew, 2019.

The Penobscot River viewed from the Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory at Prospect, Maine, USA, (just below Bucksport) as it empties in the Penobscot Bay (visible in the distance) at Stockton Springs, ME. Verona Island is on the left and...

Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain at Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York.

This map illustrates the Silk Road in the late 8th century, a vast network connecting Tang China, Central Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe. More than just a silk route, it enabled the exchange of luxury goods, technologies, and religions...

Still from the American film Huckleberry Finn (1920) with Katherine Griffith, Lewis Sargent, and Edythe Chapman, illustration from page 64 of the Exhibitors Herald, 10 April 1920.

Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wife of Mark Twain, photographed in 1869. The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.