Images

This map illustrates the geo-political situation in North America after The Louisiana Purchase - the 1803 acquisition by the United States of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square km) of French territory west of the Mississippi River. By...

Ojibwe shoulder pouch, with porcupine quills, depicting two thunderbirds The thunderbird - and thunder beings - are personifications of storms in the belief systems of several Native American nations. Boston Museum Collection, Massachusetts...

Altar in the Collegiate church, Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany.

Saint Justin Martyr, fresco by Theophanes the Cretan, 1545 and 1546. Stavronikita Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece.

Rock art depicting a horned serpent, at Pony Hills and Cook's Peak, New Mexico. The horned serpent features in several Cherokee tales, where it is known as Uktena. Photograph by E. Kay Luther, 2006.

An October 1938 photograph showing the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) touring the Sudetenland after its annexation, the first stage of Htiler's occupation of Czechoslovakia. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing Sudeten Germans welcoming German troops during the first stage of Adolf Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia in October 1938. The Sudetenland was occupied as it contained some three million German speakers. (Imperial...

A photograph showing the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria on 15 September 1938 during the Sudentenland crisis which ended with Hitler's...

A reconstruction of Fort Mandan, where the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1804-05 near Washburn, North Dakota. Photo by Wikipedia user Gooseterrain 2, 14 December 2012.

Sacagawea guides Lewis and Clark at the Three Forks of the Missouri River, 1805. Detail from a mural by Edgar Samuel Paxson, in the lobby of the Montana House of Representatives. Photograph taken at the Montana State Capitol, 2012.