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The Russian Empire on the eve of World War I (1914) represented the largest contiguous empire in modern history, stretching from Eastern Europe across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean. Its territorial scale was the result of gradual expansion...

Three-quarter-length portrait of John Brown, salt print, reproduction of daguerreotype attributed to Martin M. Lawrence, May 1859. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

John Brown's tombstone, North Elba, New York. Photograph by Mwanner, 2008.

John Brown, daguerreotype by African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846-1847. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad...

Harpers Ferry arsenal; the "engine house", later called "John Brown's Fort", is on the left, 1862. National Park Service.

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), the ninth president of the United States, oil on canvas portrait by Albert Gallatin Hoit, 1840. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Battle of Tippecanoe (7 Nov 1811), chromolithograph by Kurtz & Allison, 1889. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

President William Henry Harrison on his deathbed with Rev. Hawley, a physician, niece, and nephew in attendance, as well as Thomas Ewing, Secretary of Treasury, Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, and Francis Granger (waiting at the door...

William Henry Harrison, mezzotint by John Sartain, copy after James Reid Lambdin, circa 19th century. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

An oil-on-canvas painting by Gordon F. Crosby showing the first destruction of a Zeppelin airship (LZ 37) in the First World War (1914-18). The pilot who shot down the German airship on 7 June 1915, Lieutenant Warneford, was awarded the Victoria...