Massacre Fait A Sens En Bourgogne Par La Populace

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 numerous atrocities. The worst was the notorious St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Paris, August 24,…
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Massacre of the Protestant Martyrs at the Bridge Over the River Bann in Ireland

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 occurred at the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Having held the Protestants as…
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Murder of David Van Der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins

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 was finally dispatched with an iron fork. Bracht’s Martyr’s Mirror is considered by modern Mennonites…
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Fold-Out Illustration From The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles…

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 Smith, imagined through the eyes of a European artist. Smith, whose voyages to the New…
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