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Casualties at Shiloh, watercolour by Adolph Metzner, 1862. Adolph Metzner (1834-1918) was a German-born immigrant to the United States who enlisted in the Union army soon after the American Civil War broke out, where he would...

Photographic print of Ludwig Kohn, an injured American Civil War soldier, by Reed B. Bontecou, 1865. Reed B. Bontecou (1824-1907) was an American surgeon who recorded the wounds of Civil War soldiers, often including...

Unidentified young Confederate soldier, c. 1861-1865. All told, it is estimated that more than 250,000 boys under the age of 18 served in some capacity in both the Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil...

A Night Scout in the Southwest; Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns, wood engraving print by Thomas Nast, 1863. This piece depicts Union scouts attempting to stealthily ambush a Confederate outpost...

Battle of Stone River, lithographic print by Kurz & Allison, c. 1891. The Battle of Stones River (misspelled here in the print), otherwise known as the Second Battle of Murfreesboro, was an American Civil War engagement...

This illustration depicts the main types of gladiators in ancient Rome, professional fighters who became central to the bloody spectacles of the amphitheater. Drawn from diverse backgrounds: slaves, prisoners...

A set of stamps issued in 1940 by Pitcairn Island commemorating the 1789 Bounty mutiny. Fletcher Christian led the mutineers to Pitcairn where they established a community.

Gravestone of Frederick Douglass, photograph by Daniel Penfield, Rochester, New York, 2018. Frederick Douglass died on 20 February 1895 from a heart attack at age 76 or 77 (his exact date of birth in February 1818...

Cedar Hill, photograph by Walter Smalling in the Historic American Buildings Survey, October 1977. Frederick Douglass moved to this house in the late 1870s and lived there until his death in 1895. In 1988...

Frederick Douglass, photograph by George Kendall Warren, 1876. Frederick Douglass was one of the most important 19th-century African-American leaders who escaped slavery to become a prominent abolitionist, orator, writer...