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How a historical interpreter connects to the past at colonial Williamsburg
Historical interpreter Stephen Seals talks about how he educates the public on the...
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Histoire de la Nouvelle France
Title page of Histoire de la Nouvelle France (1609; History of New France)...
Les Muses de la Nouvelle France by Marc Lescarbot, 1609/Archive.org
Oracle bone inscriptions
Oracle bone inscriptions from the village of Xiaotun, Henan province, China; Shang...
By permission of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library
Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea
Moses leading the children of Israel through the Red Sea; illustration from a German...
Ann Ronan Pictures/Heritage Image/age fotostock
Herotodus
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first...
Courtesy of the Soprintendenza alle Antichità della Campania, Naples
St. Mark depiction in illuminated manuscript
St. Mark, illuminated manuscript page from the Gospel Book of the Court school of...
Stadtbibliothek, Trier, Ger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli, oil on canvas by Santi di Tito; in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence....
Mondadori Portfolio/age fotostock
Giorgio Vasari
Self-portrait, oil on canvas by Giorgio Vasari; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
SCALA/Art Resource, New York
Martin Luther
Portrait of Martin Luther, oil on panel by Lucas Cranach, 1529; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Photos.com/Getty Images
Justinian I
Justinian I, depicted in a 6th-century mosaic; at the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna,...
© A De Gregorio—DeA Picture Library/age fotostock
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon, oil painting by Henry Walton, 1774; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder, detail of an oil painting by Gerhard von Kügelgen, 1808;...
Courtesy of the Library of Tartu State University
Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum,...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Leopold von Ranke
Leopold von Ranke, detail of an oil painting by J. Schrader, 1868; in the National-Galerie,...
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale,...
H. Roger-Viollet
Giorgione: The Holy Family
The Holy Family, oil painting by Giorgione, c. 1508; in the National Gallery...
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Samuel H. Kress Collection
Adam Smith
Adam Smith, paste medallion by James Tassie, 1787; in the Scottish National Portrait...
Courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth of England, portrait in oil by an unknown artist, English,...
Carlo Bevilacqua—Scala/Art Resource, New York
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