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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...

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...