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John Wesley Cromwell (l. 1846-1927), educator, historian, lawyer, and activist, from an 1887 sketch in Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising by William J. Simmons and Henry McNeal Turner, G. M. Rewell & Company, 1887.

Nat Turner's Rebellion as depicted in Samuel Warner's Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County, 1831. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Throughout the study of the past, historians have relied on broad conceptual shortcuts to categorize time, societies, and developments. While these models help structure historical analysis and provide useful comparisons...

A lithograph propaganda poster encouraging support of the Red Army by an unknown artist, 1919. The poster features two figures: on the right a soldier in a cossack-style hat and coat, holding a rifle, and on the left a proletarian...

Cover of the 1967 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron based on the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner by T. R. Gray. Designed by Paul Bacon.

Front of the Belmont Estate House, located on Buckhorn Quarter Road east of Capron in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. Built in 1790, it was the site of the concluding episode of Nat Turner's...

Title page of The Confessions of Nat Turner by T. R. Gray, printed by T. H. White, 1832. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, oil on canvas by David Edward Cronin, 1888, New York Historical Society.

Discovery of Nat Turner, wood engraving by William Henry Shelton illustrating Benjamin Phipps's capture of rebel slave leader Nat Turner (l. 1800-1831) on October 30, 1831.

John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), US secretary of war, etching by James Barton Longacre. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library.