Images

People Escaping from the Indian Massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at Dinner on a Prairie, the right half of a stereograph published by Whitney Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota, the photographer thought to be Adrian J. Ebell, 1862. This photo is...

Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, December 25, 1862. Print by Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., c. 1883. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans in Minnesota for revolt against...

A young girl eating war bread during the First World War (1914-1918). Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States (1929-1933), c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

In Brussels, sacks of white flour and cases of condensed milk are ready for distribution, c. 1916. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Relief ship carrying supplies to Belgium, c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Wanted Immediately. 2,000,000 Garments for destitute Men, Women, and children in occupied Northern France and Belgium. Poster advertising for contributions to the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, during the First World War (1914-1918...

Committee for Relief in Belgium in Lille, France, during the First World War (1914-1918), photo by an unknown photographer, American service personnel from the 1st Aero Squadron, 1916. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

This map illustrates the rise of the Latin Empire (Imperium Romaniae), a Crusader state founded by Western European forces after the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople in 1204. It replaced the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire...

An SS service dress jacket with white metal buttons and Nazi armband. (Imperial War Museums)