Images

Confederate cavalry general J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864), published in The photographic history of the Civil War by Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert Sampson Lanier, 1911.

In his so-called 'Ride Around McClellan', Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) humiliates the Union army and gathers vital intelligence during the Peninsula Campaign (March-July 1862), chromolithograph...

Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Elizabethan poet, soldier, and courtier, oil on canvas by an unknown artist after an original, c. 1576. National Portrait Gallery, London.

The fatal wounding of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) at the Battle of Zutphen (22 September 1586);oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1806. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.

Portrait of an Elizabethan lady, thought to be Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (1563-1607); sister to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and muse of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, who used her as inspiration for his sonnet...

Portrait of Hubert Languet (1518-1581), French Huguenot diplomat. Print by Martin Bernigeroth, 1685-1733. The British Museum, London.

View of the town of Pictou, Nova Scotia, from the Jitney Trail. Pictou was the home of the Reverend James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830), the first published abolitionist in the history of the region now known as Canada.

The 14th century was a time of crisis and transformation across much of the world. Plague, war, shifting power structures, and intellectual ferment reshaped societies from Asia to Africa, Europe to the Americas...

A photograph taken during the Russian Revolution of 1905 showing a train derailed by striking railway workers at Tiflis.

A 1907 oil on canvas painting by Ilya Repin (1844-1930) titled Demonstration on October 17, 1905. The work refers to the public reaction to the Russian Tsar's compromise of promised reforms, the October Manifesto...