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Hannibal Barca (l. 247-183 BCE), the brilliant Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE), had the military talent, expertise, and skill to have won the conflict but was denied the resources by his government. The Carthaginian...

Major John André (1750-1780) was a British military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He is best known for negotiating with the American turncoat Benedict Arnold, who offered to hand over the stronghold of...

The Protestant Reformation was a period of religious history marked by a great defining, debating, and divergence on what it meant to be an orthodox, faithful Christian. To this end, many theologians offered their own explanations of the...

Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) was a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He was considered one of the finest Patriot military officers during the early years of the conflict but defected to the...

The Flour War refers to the series of approximately 300 riots that swept through France from April to May 1775, because of rising bread prices. The revolts only subsided after soldiers had been deployed, resulting in hundreds of arrests...

The Parson's Cause was a legal and political controversy that arose in the British colony of Virginia in the early 1760s. In response to the royal veto of the Two Penny Act, a policy passed by Virginia's House of Burgesses, a young lawyer...

Abolitionist and Civil Rights Activist Sojourner Truth, photograph by Randall Studio, 1864, printed c. 1870. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Sioux Chief and Holy Man Siting Bull and Family, Fort Randall, 1882 Rear (left to right) Good-Feather-Woman (sister), Walks-Looking (daughter); front (left to right) Her-Holy-Door (mother), Sitting Bull, Many-Horses (daughter) with her son...

A photograph taken in April 1943 showing the first soldiers to meet from the British Eighth Army (Lance Sergeant Brown) and the 1st US Armored Division (Sergeant A. Randall) as both armies linked-up to attack the remaining Axis armies in...

A Chiricahua-Apache medicine man in the traditional Apache dwelling of a wickiup with his family in 1883. The Chiricahua are one of the six bands of the Apache nation. Photograph by A. Frank Randall. Denver Public Library Special Collections...