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A portrait of Sir Edmund Andros, an English colonial official who served as governor for multiple colonies including New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and the short-lived Dominion of New England. By Mary Beale, circa 1680.

Arctic exploration represents one of humanity’s most formidable quests for discovery, driven by scientific curiosity, commercial ambition, and geopolitical competition. From the early voyages of Henry Hudson (1609–1610) to the great naval...

This is the folio 2 recto of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 12832, a list of name of peasants attached to the monastery of St.-Germain-des-Prés, compiled by its abbot, Irminon, in the 9th century.

The Assassination of President Lincoln, hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1865. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

The killing of Booth, the assassin: The dying murderer drawn from the barn where he had taken refuge, on Garrett's farm, near Port Royal, Va., April 26, 1865, illustration in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1865. A depiction of the...

The Booth brothers, Winter Garden Theater, 25 November 1864. John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, and Junius Brutus Booth Jr. pose during a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. John Wilkes Booth (left) would assassinate US President Abraham...

Colorized portrait of John Wilkes Booth, the 19th century American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865, photograph by J.W. Black and John G. Case.

Portrait of American actor, and future assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth around the peak of his acting career, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks, c. 1862. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution...

Portrait of American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, c. 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Canal with a touristic trajineras, photography by Luis Bartolomé Marcos, Xochimilco in Mexico City, 05 November 2013. Flat-bottomed, vibrantly colored tourist boats known as trajineras pass by a chinampa, a man-made agricultural island...