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English dramatist Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), engraving first published on the title page of Two New Plays (1657), which contained his works Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women, republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton...

A 1910 photograph of the SMS Rheinland battleship of the German Imperial Navy. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914), heir to the Habsburg throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek, both seated in the rear of the car during a tour of Sarajevo. The archduke and countess...

A 1902 photograph of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). (Imperial War Museums)

William Still Historical Marker at 244 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While living here, William Still was an Underground Railroad agent who helped slaves escape and kept records so relatives could find them later. A wealthy coal...

Engraving of Jane Johnson, from The Underground Railroad, by William Still, 1872.

Runaway Slave Poster, 1837, republished in "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom" by Wilbur Henry Siebert, Albert Bushnell Hart Edition: Published by Macmillan, 1898, pg. 26.

The title page of Ben Jonson's works, The Works of Benjamin Jonson, published in 1616.

Portrait of Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), oil on panel by an unknown artist, 1612. Artwork photographed by Antonia Reeve. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

An imagined conversation between William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid Tavern, illustration from A book for Shakespeare plays and pageants by Orie Latham Hatcher, 1916.