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A photograph of a meeting of the Petrograd Soviet (workers' council) in 1917.

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by US President Abraham Lincoln on 1 January 1863, at the height of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It proclaimed that "all persons...

Patrick R. Cleburne (1828-1864) was an Irish-born Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Having immigrated to Arkansas in 1850, Cleburne fell in love with his adopted state and volunteered...

Private U.S. Infantry, Fatigue Marching Order, illustration by an unknown artist, c. 1891 to c. 1985. The illustration here shows a Union army private infantry uniform, which would have been worn during the American...

The Bolshevik Revolution occurred on 7 November 1917 (old calendar 25 October) and established a new republic: Soviet Russia. The Bolsheviks were radical socialists led by Vladimir Lenin...

A trade union scroll for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, created in January 1851. The scroll shows illustrations of important engineers and inventions during the Industrial Revolution...

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers of 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, photography by an unknown photographer, 1865. The photograph here shows Union officers of a heavy artillery regiment, and...

A cartoon drawn by David Low on the subject of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, a non-aggression aggreement between Adolf Hilter (1889-1945), leader of Nazi Germany, and Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), leader of the USSR. Both...

A Soviet propaganda poster demonizing kulaks, illustration by Viktor Deni, 1919. In this poster, kulaks, better-off landowning peasants, are accused of hoarding bread. The caption reads: "Bread-Spider. Bloodsucking...

The Battle of Fort Henry (6 February 1862) is often referenced as the first major Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War, but it was not. The first major Union...