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The Changing Geography of the Ottoman Empire (1300–1920) (en español)
Maps showing the growth and contraction of territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1300 through 1920. This resource is in Spanish.
Pre-war Jewish Life in Europe
Explore photographs depicting the everyday life of European Jews between World War I and World War II.
![A woman wearing a scarf on her head leans out of a window. Photo taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/14_Vishniac_woman_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=1fb8bf0a&itok=0w7bUtGb)
Pre-War Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Explore photographs of the everyday lives of European Jews living in shtetls and larger cities before World War II.
![Shabbtai (Shepske) Sonenson takes one of the shtetl's Hebrew teachers for a ride on his new motorcycle.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1941_ShabbtaiSonensonOnMotorcycle_FH2115443.jpg?h=d392e916&itok=DmuRlDw6)
Pre-War Jewish Life in Eastern Europe (en español)
Explore photographs of the everyday lives of European Jews living in shtetls and larger cities before World War II. This resource is in Spanish.
![Shabbtai (Shepske) Sonenson takes one of the shtetl's Hebrew teachers for a ride on his new motorcycle.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1941_ShabbtaiSonensonOnMotorcycle_FH2115443.jpg?h=d392e916&itok=DmuRlDw6)
The Auschwitz Album Visual Essay
View a famous collection of photographs from the Holocaust of a transport arriving in Auschwitz from Hungary in early summer 1944.
![People and belongings outside a train having just arrived at Birkenau.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Women_and_children_arrive_on_the_ramp_at_Birkenau_FH260051.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=vOZqS_LJ)
Pre-War Sighet Visual Essay
Enrich your reading of Night with photos depicting daily life in Elie Wiesel's hometown.
![Group portrait outside of a wooden synagogue](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Members_of_Sighet%E2%80%99s_Jewish_Community_FH260043.jpg?h=f83c6171&itok=ED05ruNK)
Global Migration
Use these photographs of global migration to help students explore the experiences of individuals and groups who choose or are forced to leave their homelands.
![Syrian refugees cross from Syria to Turkey via the Orontes River, near the village of Hacipasa, Turkey, Dec. 8, 2012. This image was one in a series of 20 by AP photographers that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2013_SyrianRefugeesontheOrontesRiver_FH248167.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=Gx3XIq0Q)
Angel Island Immigration Station Gallery Walk
Students use these images to explore the concept of borders as social, economic, and political boundaries, as well as geographic ones.
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Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell (1945)
This series of paintings by Norman Rockwell was inspired by President FDR's 1941 speech outlining four basic human freedoms for a post-war world.
![Freedom of Speech depicts a young man who appears to be of the American working class, given his plain clothing over which he wears a plain, brown jacket. Protruding from a front pocket of the jacket is a folded document that appears to bear importance in the matter at hand.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/_Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536.jpg?h=d8bc2a9a&itok=uVZ_kjE_)
Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell (1945) (en español)
This series of paintings by Norman Rockwell was inspired by President FDR's 1941 speech outlining four basic human freedoms for a post-war world.
![Freedom of Speech depicts a young man who appears to be of the American working class, given his plain clothing over which he wears a plain, brown jacket. Protruding from a front pocket of the jacket is a folded document that appears to bear importance in the matter at hand.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/_Freedom_of_Speech__-_NARA_-_513536.jpg?h=d8bc2a9a&itok=uVZ_kjE_)
For Freedoms: Four Freedoms by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur (2018)
This series of photographs are modern update to Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms created by the artists Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur.
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