EI Weekly

A series of audio essays featuring our writers.

Gustavus Adolphus II
Eighteenth century map of London.
A print of a First World War Imperial German Navy battlecruiser, the SMS Goeben.
An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama, 1861.
Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Battle of Waterloo
This map of Russia and surrounding countries highlights Hitler's campaign in Russia and how it went wrong.
Pope Francis with his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, in 2018. Credit: Massimo Wallichia / Getty Images.
The Flammarion Wood engraving. The image is often used as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.