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Portrait of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, oil on canvas by Charles-Philippe Larivière, France, 1846. Ibrahim Pasha was the son of Mehmed Ali Pasha, the Egyptian governor who defied Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and launched...

Orašac Assembly, 14 February 1804, drawing included in Konstantin N. Nenadović's Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara-Đorđa I, p. 48, 1903. The Orašac Assembly saw 300 Serbian chiefs and rebels organize to revolt...

The Congress of Vienna (September 1814–June 1815) was a major diplomatic settlement that sought to rebuild Europe after more than two decades of revolutionary...

Daring Ride of Colonel Lander at the Battle of Philippi, wood engraving, 1861. This illustration, depicting the downhill ride of Colonel Frederick W. Lander of...

Town of Phillippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, lithographic print after sketching by Mrs. M. D. Pool, 1861.

The Philippi covered bridge across the Tygart Valley River, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Philippi, West Virginia, 3 May 2015. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Philippi covered bridge as seen from the northeast end, photograph by Hu Maxwell in The History of Barbour County, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to...

Portrait of Charles Sumner, oil on canvas by Edgar Parker, 1874. Depicted here is the American statesman Charles Sumner, whose stalwart abolitionist advocacy saw him infamously brutalized on the floor of the Senate chamber by...

Mending the Family Kettle, wood engraving appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 16 June 1866. In this political cartoon, Columbia, the female national personification of the United States, holds in...

"Come, let us take counsel together," poster by Elton C. Fax, 1944. In this NAACP poster advertising a Wartime Conference for Total Peace, a hand grips the neck of Jim Crow, a bird with the tattered flags of Nazi Germany...