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A hand-colored woodcut print from 1517 by German artist Hans Schäufelein, depicting Saint John the Evangelist in prison. A haloed figure sits inside a stone cell as an angel appears before him. The image is rendered in fine black lines with warm color wash, in the style of early sixteenth-century German printmaking.
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A large outdoor mural painted on a concrete wall depicts a sweeping civil rights and education justice narrative. At the center, a giant pencil rendered in yellow, white, and gray stripes extends diagonally across the composition, held at its base by a small figure in a blue dress. Inside the pencil's hollow tip, a group of diverse protesters carries signs reading "We March for Integrated Schools Now," "I Am Just Going to School," and "We Demand Freedom." To the left, figures march past a columned building , evoking the Lincoln Memorial, while a corn stalk and fire imagery appear below. To the right, large silhouetted figures in yellow and blue frame the scene, one with a lightning bolt emanating from their head. Scissors, tools, and fragmented shapes fill the background, suggesting barriers being cut through. The overall composition frames education and integration as acts of resistance and power. Sonnet 4.6
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A detailed 1735 engraving by Johann Balthasar Probst depicting two anatomical figures standing side by side within an ornate Baroque frame. On the left, a full human skeleton raises one hand upward toward rays of divine light descending from above. On the right, a flayed muscular figure, with skin and flesh removed to reveal the underlying musculature, also faces upward toward the same light. Between them hangs a third element showing the nervous system. Ships are visible on a distant horizon in the background. The elaborate frame is decorated with urns, foliage, and baroque scrollwork. At the bottom, inscriptions appear in Greek and German, both reading a passage from Job, Chapter X, Verses 8 through 12, alongside the phrase "Know Thyself" in Greek and "Learn to Know Yourself" in German.
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A colorful, expressionist street scene depicting an elderly woman in an ornate wide-brimmed hat seated in a wheelchair at the center of the composition. She wears an elaborate dress and is surrounded by the bustle of a city sidewalk — a yellow taxi to her left, fashionably dressed figures moving past, and a brick storefront in the background. The painting's style is bold and slightly distorted, with vivid oranges, yellows, and pinks dominating the palette. The woman commands the center of the frame despite — or because of — her stillness amid the urban movement around her.
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Jerash Diary (March 31, 1933 – July 1, 1933): April 24, 1933. n.d. Part of Dura-Europos and Gerasa (Yale University), Artstor.

John Pruitt, Benjamin E. Mays, and WSB-TV. Mays Discusses Desegregation’s Effect on the Quality of Education. January 22, 1970. Part of WSB-TV newsfilm collection, University of Georgia Digital Library of Georgia.

Moche Culture. Seated Figure of Deer Impersonator. 250 – 550 A.D. Part of Art Institute of Chicago, Artstor.

Digital archival materials including artwork, documents, and historical artifacts connected by icons labeled Process, Preserve, Manage, and Share.

John Gibson. Bust of a Gentleman. ca. 1830–40. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

Unknown maker. Bain’s Chemical Telegraph, 1850. 1850. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.

William Stanley Haseltine. Baths of Trajan (Sette Sale, Villa Brancaccio, Rome). ca. 1882. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

F., A. B. Durand, Gulian C. Verplanck, J. E. Freeman, and John Gibson. “Sketchings.” Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Crayon 5, no. 1 (1858): 23–27.

A collage showing a jade vase, a scholarly article titled Separate but Loyal: Ethnicity and Nationalism in China, and a book cover A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages, with tags reading “Qing Dynasty” and “Show related content.”

Chinese. Three-Sectional Altar Group: Cylindrical Carving with Phoenix (Lid). 1644–1911. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor.

Wenfang Tang and Gaochao He. “Separate but Loyal: Ethnicity and Nationalism in China.” East-West Center, 2010.  

Erik Hermans. A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages. Editorial: Leeds, Arc Humanities Press, 2020.

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Alexander Key. “Front Matter.” In Language between God and the Poets: Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century, 1st ed., i–viii. University of California Press, 2018.

Veysel Apaydin. “Introduction: Why Cultural Memory and Heritage?” In Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction, edited by Veysel Apaydin, 1–10. UCL Press, 2020.

Doubleday, Page & Company. An Academic Class; A Problem in Brick Masonry; Mr. Washington Always Insisted upon Correlation: That Is, Drawing the Problems from the Various Shops and Laboratories. Published: Garden City, N.Y., Issued: 1916. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Part of Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), Artstor.

The Movement. January 1970. Vols. 5–12. The Movement Press. Periodical, The Movement Newspaper collection. The Freedom Archives.

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William Michael Harnett. A Study Table. 1882. Part of Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection, Artstor.

Painted portrait of a man in traditional dress reading from an open book, representing global publishing and scholarship.

An Indian (?) Man Seated, Reading a Book. n.d. Part of Open: Wellcome Collection, Artstor.

Painted portrait of a man in traditional dress reading from an open book, representing global publishing and scholarship.

Whittaker and Company, and Andrew Pritchard. “A List of Two Thousand Microscopic Objects” Book by Andrew Pritchard, England, 1835, 1835. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.

Denis Bourdon. Cabinet Card of Frederick Douglass with His Grandson, Joseph Douglass. May 10, 1894. Part of Charlene Hodges Byrd Collection, Open: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Artstor.

Close-up of an ancient carved sculpture head with buttons labeled Zoom and Save to Workspace.

Egyptian. Face from a Cosmetic Spoon. 1391–1353 BC. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor.

Collage of historical documents and political posters from various countries, including anti-Nazi and Puerto Rican independence imagery, with a search bar overlay containing the word ‘Propaganda.’

Rolando Córdova Cabeza. Day of World Solidarity with the Struggle of the People of Puerto Rico. 1976. Part of The Lindsay Webster Collection of Cuban Posters, Wofford College. 

South African Communist Party. The Path to Power. Programs (Programmes), 1989. Part of South African Communist Party, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. 

Leopoldo Mendez. Nazi Propaganda and Espionage. 1937. Part of Seattle Art Museum, Artstor.

“The Italian Scene. Vol. XV – N.6 June 1969” XV, no. 6 (June 1, 1969): 1–16. Part of The Italian Scene. A Bulletin of Cultural Information (1953-1969), Sorbello Foundation.

David Shambaugh. “China’s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy.” The China Journal, no. 57 (2007): 25–58.