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Daring Ride of Colonel Lander at the Battle of Philippi - The Famous Downhill Ride of Colonel Lander
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...
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Town of Philippi, West Virginia, 1861 - Site of the Battle of Philippi
Town of Phillippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, lithographic print after sketching by Mrs. M. D. Pool, 1861.
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Philippi Covered Bridge, 2015 - Reconstruction of the Famous Philippi Bridge
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.
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Philippi Covered Bridge, c. 1899 - Famous Bridge from the Battle of Philippi (Philippi Races)
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...
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Charles Sumner
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...
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Ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment
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...
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NAACP Strangles Jim Crow
"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...
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School Integration, Washington, D.C.
School integration in Washington, D.C., photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 27 May 1955. Depicted here in the foreground are a line of Black and White school girls while boys seated behind look on. The Supreme...
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Map of the Roman Trade with the East, c. 1st–3rd Centuries - Silk Roads and Indian Ocean Routes across Afro-Eurasia
Roman trade with the East refers to the overland and maritime exchange networks that connected the Roman Empire with Parthian Iran, the Kushan Empire...
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Map of the Diocletian's First Tetrarchy and the Roman Empire - Stability Through Division, Succession by Design
The First Tetrarchy (293–305 CE) was Emperor Diocletian's (reign 284–305 CE) solution to the political and military crises that had nearly destroyed the...
