Images

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...

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.

A 1933 colourised photograph of members of the Hitler Youth, a Nazi youth organization founded in 1922, saluting at a rally in Berlin. (Bild 147-0510, German Federal Archives)

A 1936 German postcard showing the coat of arms and castle of Nuremberg and a member of the Hitler Youth, a Nazi youth organization founded in 1922.

A photograph with modern colourisation showing members of the Hitler Youth, a Nazi youth organization founded in 1922. (Bild 119-5592-14A, German Federal Archives)