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General Nelson A. Miles (l. 1839-1925), who denounced the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 and tried to help survivors receive compensation. Photo by Brands Studios, Chicago, 1898, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Historical Photographs...

Dr. Charles A. Eastman (also known as Ohiyesa, l. 1858-1939), a Native American Sioux author, activist, and physician. Eastman arrived at Wounded Knee to care for the wounded following the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890 and provided...

Elaine Goodale (later Elaine Goodale Eastman, l. 1863-1953) as a young girl. She was already a famous poet by the time she married the Sioux physician, author, and activist Charles Eastman in 1891. Image from A woman of the century; fourteen...

A 1747 painted portrait by Pierre Allais of Madame Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699-1777), famous as a Parisian salon host. (Private collection)

A c. 1710 portrait painting by Nicolas de Largillière of Madame Anne Thérèse de Marganat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert (1647-1733), a pioneer of the Parisian salon. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)

Regimental Flag of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, c. 1781.

Christopher Greene (1737-1781), a colonel in the Continental Army who commanded the famous 1st Rhode Island Regiment, the first American military unit to consist primarily of Black soldiers. Greene led the regiment at the battles of Red Bank...

Soldiers at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). A Black infantryman of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment is depicted at the far left. Watercolor by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, 1781. Anne...

A cropped image of a Black infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783); the full watercolor shows American troops at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781. By Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger, 1781...

An 1814 oil painting by Anocet Lemonnier showing the Parisian salon of Madame Geoffrin (1699-1777). Original title: Une soirée chez Mme Geoffrin. The sitters include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu, and Fontenelle. Madame...