Images

Tadeusz Kościuszko's victory at the Battle of Racławice (1794) against the invading Russian army, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1888. National Museum, Krakow.

Medieval and early modern buildings in Gdańsk (Poland). When these buildings were constructed, Gdańsk was still part of Poland, but the city's inhabitants were mainly German-speakers and called the city Danzig. Photo by Reinhold Möller, 2007...

A map showing the Polish-Lithuanian Republic at its greatest territorial extent (mid-1600s), superimposed onto modern state boundaries, by Samotny Wędrowiec.

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) photographed during his retirement, circa 1860. Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

US President Martin Van Buren, oil on canvas by Henry Inman, circa 1837. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A Whig political cartoon showing the effects of the Panic of 1837. By Henry Dacre, 1838. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Former President Martin Van Buren, daguerrotype by Mathew Brady, around 1849-50. Yale University Library.

As part of Herod the Great's building program, besides the unattached edifices at the entrance to Herod's Harbor, there is material evidence for two other unique structures. One was a low-lying breakwater south of the harbor’s tower-and-wall...

A photograph of the full-size replica of the lounge area of the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship which was in service from 1936 to 1937. (Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen)

A c. 1936 photograph of the German Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg flying over New York.