Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Elijah Sadd gravestone Year: 1756

Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Lt. John Hescy gravestone Year: 1689

Credit: University of New Hampshire Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: William Dickson gravestone Year: 1692

Credit: University of Pennsylvania Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1598

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC2-2890 Year: 1848

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: The slaughter of Huguenots (French Protestants) by Catholics at Sens, Burgundy in 1562 occurred at the beginning of more than thirty years of religious strife between French Protestants and Catholics. These wars produced…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1773

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Shown here is a depiction of the murder by Irish Catholics of approximately one hundred Protestants from Loughgall Parish, County Armagh, at the bridge over the River Bann near Portadown, Ulster. This atrocity…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-119892 Year: 1732

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1675

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-119890 Annotation: This engraving depicts the execution of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554. Strangled and burned, van der Leyen…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: rc 01002800 Annotation: This illustrated image, taken from Captain John Smith’s “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles” (published in England in 1624), depicts a American native ritual as described by…