Images

A photograph of the Czech surgeon Dr Franz Blaha (far left) giving evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). Blaha was a noted surgeon and inmate at the Dachau concentration camp. (Imperial War Museums)

Kiowa Beaded Moccasins from Oklahoma, c. 1920. Oklahoma History Center.

Joseph Wanton Morrison, famous for commanding the British and Canadian forces at the Battle of Crysler's Farm (11 November 1813) during the War of 1812. Oil on canvas by an unknown artist, c. 1821. McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal.

James Wilkinson as US envoy to Mexico, c. 1820-1825, portrait by John Wesley Jarvis.

Battle of Chateauguay (26 October 1813) between Canadian and US forces during the War of 1812. Illustration by Henri Julien, published in Le Journal de Dimanche in June 1884.

This map traces the expansion of Buddhism from its origins in the Ganges Plain of Magadha (modern Bihar, India) during the 5th–4th century BCE when Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) attained enlightenment. From this heartland, Buddhism spread...

Battle of Crysler's Farm (11 November 1813) between British and US troops during the War of 1812. Oil on board, by Adam Sherriff Scott, c. 1960. Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.

Statue of Artemis/Diktynna, found in 1913 in the Diktynnaion sanctuary (Menies Kissamou), Roman Period. Archaeological Museum of Chania, Crete.

A photograph of the judges at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). The panel, which decided the fate of 22 senior Nazi figures after the Seocdn World War (1939-45), was made up of two judges selected from each of the victorious Allies: USSR, USA...

Modoc Harvest Diorama from the Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The Modoc are a Native American nation of the West Coast whose ancestral lands once included the regions of northeastern California and southern Oregon. Photograph...