Images

A photograph showing a crowd in the Heldenplatz of Vienna on March 15, 1938 awaiting a speech by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) after the Anschluss of 12 March. (US National Archives)

A photograph showing German troops crossing the border with Austria during the Anschluss of March 1938. (Imperial War Museums)

Thomas Jefferson as US minister to France, oil on canvas by Mather Brown, 1786. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition meet the Chinook people on the Lower Columbia River in October 1805, watercolor on paper by Charles M. Russell, 1905. Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas.

A photograph of Corporal Earl Brunitt and Private Genare Nuzzi of the US Marine Corps, sharing a foxhole with an Okinawan orphan child, taken in April 1945. The Battle of Okinawa (April-June 1945) saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the...

Bejeweled Bodhisattva Maitreya meditating on a lotus seat, 2nd-3rd century. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

US Army officers George Armstrong Custer (left) and Alfred Pleasonton, autumn 1863, from page 280 of The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Four, The Cavalry. The Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1911.

George Armstrong Custer and his wife Elizabeth "Libbie" Custer, photo by Matthew Brady, 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Pickett's Charge of 3 July 1863, L. Prang & Co. print of the painting Hancock at Gettysburg by Thure de Thulstrup, 1887. Restored by Adam Cuerden.

Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876, oil on canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson 1899. Whitney Gallery of Western Art.