Images

Ethan Allen demands the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga 'in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress' on 10 May 1775. Print, c. 1869. New York Public Library, Emmet Collection of...

Engraving of Benedict Arnold by Henry Bryan Hall, after an original painting by John Trumbull; 1879. National Archives and Records Administration.

Northern Cheyenne chief Little Wolf (also known as Little Coyote, l. c. 1820-1904) at Fort Laramie, 1868. Photograph by Alexander Gardner.

Image of a modern-day Cheyenne Dog Soldier at a Native American Powwow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2008. The Dog Soldiers are one of the military societies of the Cheyenne nation.

The Pit, painting by Frederic Remington, 1897. It depicts the mass grave of the Northern Cheyenne at Fort Robinson following the Fort Robinson Breakout/Fort Robinson Massacre of January 1879.

Cheyenne War Chief Two Moons (l. 1847-1917), who led Cheyenne forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1910, published in 1911, in The North American Indian, Volume 6...

Chief Morning Star (also known as Dull Knife) of the Northern Cheyenne (l. c. 1810-1883). US National Archives and Records Administration.

Molly Pitcher firing cannon at Battle of Monmouth, by E. Percy Moran, 1911. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

A colonial woman spinning in the kitchen. Illustration from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther Baker Steele, 1885.

Molly Pitcher loading a cannon at the Battle of Monmouth (28 June 1778). The legend of Molly Pitcher is probably a composite of several women from the American Revolution including Mary Ludwig Hays and Margaret Corbin. Engraving...