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Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861, woodcut by an unknown artist, 27 April 1861. This woodcut shows the opening of the American Civil War, the attack on Fort Sumter by the Confederate States...

The cutting of huge figures or geoglyphs into the turf of English hillsides has been going on for more than 3000 years. There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on the chalk downlands of the southern part...

Burial Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, MA. The cemetery has been in use since the 1620s and is the final resting place of many Mayflower passengers and Plymouth Colony's first settlers.

Three relatively large adjoining rooms (a tablinum and two side rooms) in the House of Livia on the Palatine Hill, Rome. Each room was painted with a mythological subject and its floor decorated in black and white geometric mosaic.

Carved stone head (with 3 faces) from Corleck Hill, Co. Cavan, Ireland, 1st-2nd century. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

American Sgt. Jasper raises the South Carolina flag over the Spring Hill redoubt during the assault on Savannah, 9 October 1779. Moments later, the British defenders of the redoubt opened fire, killing Jasper and forcing the Americans to...

View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Photograph by Michael A. Orlando, July 2015.

Cedar Hill, photograph by Walter Smalling in the Historic American Buildings Survey, October 1977. Frederick Douglass moved to this house in the late 1870s and lived there until his death in 1895. In 1988, the site was added to the list...

Standing on Schönbühl Hill, one finds the old Roman religious district at Augusta Raurica in what is present-day Switzerland. It existed from the early days of the town. Around 50 CE, several small temples stood here. The buildings were typical...

The reconstructed Porta Praetoria, the main gate of the Saalburg Roman Fort. The gate takes its name from the Via Praetoria, the camp’s road running in a north-south direction. Between the two gates, a bronze statue of emperor Antoninus Pius...