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A painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris showing Thomas Jefferson (right), Benjamin Franklin (left), and John Adams drafting the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776. (Virginia Historical Society, Library of Congress)

Cover of A Noble Ruin by W. Jeffrey Tatum

Theodore Beza (1519-1605), aged 58, oil on wood portrait by an unknown artist, 1577. Published in Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande, vol. 1., ed. Payot-Lausanne.

Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591), a theologian during the French Reformation, portrait by an unknown artist, 16th century. Bibliothèque de Genève.

A replica of the gray smocks worn by the Black Loyalist soldiers of Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Photo by Wikipedia user Chitt66, taken at the Virginia Historical Society Museum...

General George Washington rallies his troops during the Battle of Monmouth Court House (28 June 1778). Oil on canvas by Emanuel Leutze, c. 1851-1854. Doe Memorial Library, Berkeley.

James Armistead Lafayette, a Black Patriot who served as a spy for the Continental Army during the Siege of Yorktown. Engraved portrait by an unknown artist, based on an original painting by John B. Martin, c. 1824. Virginia Historical...

A portrait of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (center) at the Siege of Yorktown; on the right is depicted James Armistead, an enslaved African American spy who gathered intelligence on the British army to deliver to the marquis. After...

An 18th-century oil-on-canvas portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo of Madame Anne-Catherine Helvétius (neé de Ligniville, 1722-1800), famous as a Parisian salon host.

Brothers, (left to right) White Lance, Joseph Horn Cloud (l. 1873-1920), and Iron Hail (also known as Dewey Beard, l. 1858-1955), Wounded Knee survivors; Miniconjou Lakota Sioux. Their parents and families were all slaughtered in the Wounded...