Images

A photograph of the fascist leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), inspecting troops during the invasion of Abyssinia (1935-6).

A 1923 photograph of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, a partisan newspaper supporting the Democratic-Republican Party. Bache was arrested under the Alien and Sedition Acts and died...

Copy of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), provided by the US Federal Government.

Medieval Azerbaijani helmet related to the period of Eldiguzids, State of Atabegs (12th century). National Museum of Art, Baku, Azerbaijan.

This map illustrates the situation in Europe in November 1920 in the aftermath of First World War (1914-18), as the continent was reshaped by the Treaty of Versailles (1919) and the Treaty of Sèvres (1920). The German Empire had collapsed...

This map illustrates the geopolitical evolution in the Aegean during the Bronze Age when the dominant civilizations of the region - the Minoans and Mycenaeans- played distinct roles. The Minoans (2000–1450 BCE) on Crete were renowned for...

An infographic illustrating the Treaty of Versailles siigned on 28 June, 1919. The treaty, following the armistice of 11 November 1918, formally ended the First World War and imposed severe territorial, military, and financial penalties on...

Portrait of Talleyrand, oil on canvas by François Gérard, 1808. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

John Marshall (1755-1835), the fourth chief justice of the United States. Oil on canvas portrait by Henry Inman, 1832. Library of Virginia.