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Pahuk (also known as Pahaku and Pahuk Hill) a site sacred to the Pawnee in modern-day Nebraska. The site features prominently in the Pawnee tale The Boy Who Was Sacrificed and in the story of Old-Lady-Grieves-the-Enemy who defended the site...

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin. The church was damaged in the bombing of Berlin during the Second World War (1939-45) and left as a memorial.

A 1942 photograph of one of the anti-aircraft gun installations which protected Berlin during the Second World War. (German Federal Archives)

A June 1945 photograph showing the bomb-damaged Reichstag in Berlin. (Imperial War Museums, London)

A photograph taken in May 1944 of a United States Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bomber over Berlin. The bomber has been damaged by bombs dropped from another plane in the formation. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum)

A map illustrating the geopolitical situation in Africa after World War I - the continent still under European colonial domination, with only a few areas having gained independence or achieved limited autonomy. Although many African...

Ballerina Maria Tallchief of the Osage nation, photo published in Dance Magazine, April 1961, commemorating the magazine's annual award winners. She was the first Native American woman, and the first United States citizen, to hold the rank...

Photograph of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to receive a medical degree. Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections.

Paiute activist, writer, and organizer Sarah Winnemucca (also known as Thocmentony).

Crow warrior Pine Leaf (associated with the figure known as Woman Chief), illustration from The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, edited by Thomas D. Bonner, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1856.