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“The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” by John Trumbull

Painting the birth of American independence

Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis

Touring Byzantine antiquity

A selection of William H. Townsend’s sketches of Amistad prisoners

Pencil sketches of the Amistad prisoners

Painted plaster bust of African American newspaper boy from the 1920s

An expressive sculpture from the Harlem Renaissance

Roman shield

A painted shield once wielded by Roman soldiers

Detail of page from Voynich manuscript

Deciphering a mysterious manuscript

“Zebra,” by George Stubbs

The first zebra publicly exhibited in Britain 

Detail of manuscript

The first known prison memoir written by a Black American

Detail of the painting “The Waterfall” by Kandinsky

Kandinsky’s mysterious exploration of color and form