Images

Sebastian and Olivia agree to marry one another in Act IV of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. Painting by W. Hamilton, engraving by W. Angus, 18th century. Shakespeare Print Collection.

A 1937 photograph of the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, initially called the 'Foro Mussolini' after Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy. It was designed in 1927 by architect Enrico Del Debbio, and then inaugurated...

This map illustrates the exploration of the continent of Antarctica from the first voyages of the 18th century to the research stations of the 21st century. The map also shows the varied and competing national claims to slices of the Great...

A group of Balilla, members of a youth group in Fascist Italy, wearing their uniforms and holding a miniature rifle (moschetto regolamentare Balilla modello 1891 ridotto) designed for the military training of Italian youth

A political cartoon depicting Nazi sportsmen destroying the Olympic spirit in Germany prior to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Cartoon by John Henry Amshewitz published by the British Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council in 1935.

A c. 1923 photograph showing a public gymnastic show performed during the Italian fascist period by the Sciacca-Agrigento section of the Opera Nazionale Balilla. (Riggio Family Archives)

A photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), leader of Fascist Italy, taken during the so-called "battle for wheat", a propaganda campaign launched in 1925 for self-sufficiency in wheat production

Andry Woodland Plantation, now 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, LaPlace, Louisiana. Exterior view of the "big house" from River Road.

Old cane knife, the type used for cutting sugar cane by hand, and the most common weapon in the 1811 German Coast Uprising. 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, LaPlace, Louisiana.

Depiction of the 1811 German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt in parts of the Orleans Territory in the United States, by an unknown artist, 1811.