Käthe Kollwitz, Never Again War, 1924.
Title: "The Way Out"
Caption: "Nothing the November Republic promised them has been fulfilled." Der Stürmer was published by the Nuremberg Nazi leader Julius Streicher. It was the most vicious antisemitic newspapers among all those the Nazis published and combined racist stereotypes with pornographic material to accuse the Jews of race defilement.
A political cartoon printed during The Reconstruction Era in Harper's Weekly depicting the intimidation techniques that the Democratic Party used to suppress southern black votes in the election of 1876.
Copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic publication that purports to describe the fabricated plans of Jewish leaders to secretly rule the world.
Read a list of eligibility requirements for those interested in volunteering with the Unitarian Church during their 1930s European refugee aid project.
Political cartoon by Thomas Nast printed during The Reconstruction Era.
The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film portraying D.W. Griffith's racist vision of life in the South during the Civil war era, summarizes Reconstruction.
Still image from the silent expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This horror film follows a mentally ill hypnotist who uses a hypnotized person to commit murders. The writers, Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, derived the idea for the script from their experiences with authority and obedience in the military during World War I.
The Fallen Man (Der Gesturzte) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, c. 1915-1916
Der heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain, 1926) -- Leni Riefenstahl's first film. The film is about a dancer who meets a man at his mountain cottage and falls in love with him.
Nine African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas, prepare for their first day of school at Central High School. Elizabeth Eckford is circled in the center.