Images

Ball of the Burning Men, illumination on parchment by Phillipe de Mazerolle, included in Jean Froissart's treatise Froissart's Chronicles, Book 4, c. 1470. Depiction of the deadly Ball of the Burning Men (French: Bal des Ardents) at the...

"Welcome to Africatown" sign, photograph by Graveyardwalker (Amy Walker), 2017. Located at the intersection of Bay Bridge Road and Bay Bridge Cutoff Road in Mobile, Alabama, this sign marks the historic Africatown community and highlights...

African Slave Trade, map by KuroNekoNiyah, 2021. This map provides an overview of the slave trade out of Africa, c. 1500-1900, showing both transatlantic and ancillary global flows. It is based on Map I from Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave...

The Exorcism of Charles VI's Madness, oil on canvas painting by François-Auguste Biard, 1839. King Charles VI of France is shown in the foreground, overcome with mental illness, and leans on his mistress, Odette de Champdivers, whose expression...

Charles VI (1368-1422), King of France, oil on canvas painting by Gillot Saint-Evre, 1837. Commissioned by King Louis Philippe I in 1837, the painting is part of the Portraits of the Kings of France series in the Palace of Versailles. Charles...

The coronation of Charles VI of France, illumination on parchment by Jean Fouquet, in Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1455-1460. Charles VI was crowned King of France in 1380, at the age of 11, by the Archbishop Richard Picque in Rheims...

Casualties at Shiloh, watercolour by Adolph Metzner, 1862. Adolph Metzner (1834-1918) was a German-born immigrant to the United States who enlisted in the Union army soon after the American Civil War broke out, where he would serve three...

Photographic print of Ludwig Kohn, an injured American Civil War soldier, by Reed B. Bontecou, 1865. Reed B. Bontecou (1824-1907) was an American surgeon who recorded the wounds of Civil War soldiers, often including his own illustrations...

Unidentified young Confederate soldier, c. 1861-1865. All told, it is estimated that more than 250,000 boys under the age of 18 served in some capacity in both the Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil War. Although technically...

A Night Scout in the Southwest; Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns, wood engraving print by Thomas Nast, 1863. This piece depicts Union scouts attempting to stealthily ambush a Confederate outpost overlooking a rebel fort...