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Thanksgiving Day play at an unknown Native American boarding school, c. 1900. Minnesota Historical Society.

An unidentified African-American man lynched from a tree. Photograph by National Photo Company, 1925. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Indian Sun Dance, wood engraving by Jules Tavernier and Paul Frenzeny in Harper's Weekly, January 2, 1875.

Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," formerly enslaved on a cotton plantation along the Atchafalaya River, showing his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the whipping, his wounds were salted...

Sir William Johnson saves the life of French General Baron Dieskau after the Battle of Lake George, 1755, oil on canvas painting by Benjamin West, between 1764 and 1768. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

A coyote communicates with other animals at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge by howling. Photograph by USFWS (US Fish and Wildlife Service), 2011.

Muskrat swimming in the Rideau River, Ottawa, Ontario. Photograph by D. Gordon E. Robertson.

Common raven of North America (corvus corax principalis) in flight. Photograph taken at Muir Beach in Northern California by Christian O. Petersen, 2008.

Florida panther in Everglades National Park. Photo by Rodney Cammauf, 2005, for the US National Park Service.

The War of 1812 (1812-1815), referred to by some contemporaries as the Second American Revolution, was fought between the United States and the United Kingdom. Often remembered only as a sideshow to the Napoleonic Wars, the war had some long-term...