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A cartoon highlighting the principal weakness of the League of Nations, that the United States, despite being instrumental in founding it in 1919, did not become a member. (From Punch magazine, December, 1919)

The United States remained neutral in the first three years of the First World War (1914-18) but did finally join the conflict at the end of 1917 following the threat of unrestricted submarine...

This map illustrates the sweeping republican revolts and political upheavals that erupted across Europe in 1848, a year known as...

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

Emperor Haile Selassie's (1892-1975) League of Nations speech in 1936 against the Fascist Italian invasion. Bettmann Archive.

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (l. c.1715-1774) was a British military officer, diplomat, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was instrumental in aligning the Native Americans of New York with the British during the...

Map reconstituting the geographic culture areas of the early Native American tribes and the different Amerindian languages ​​that were spoken in the USA. By William C. Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institute, 1967...

The Plains Indians (also known as Native Americans of the Plains and Prairie, Indigenous Peoples of the Great Plains) are the original inhabitants of the western plains of North America, now part of the United States and Canada...

Western view of the "All Nations Gate" at Persepolis, located in present-day Iran. This gate was not on Darius the Great's initial plan for Persepolis but was added by his son and successor, Xerxes. The initial...

The east side of the Gate of All Nations (also known as the Gate of Xerxes) in Persepolis (Iran), built by Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE). The gate was flanked by two monumental statues of lamassu, winged bulls with human...