Images

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, plate no. 213...

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 by J. C...

A map illustrating Ibn Battuta's (Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī, 1304 – c.1368) series of extraordinary journeys across the Islamic world and beyond spanning close to 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometers). A 14th-century Maghrebi...

A political cartoon satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, when 51 women signed an agreement to boycott British goods in October 1774. The ladies are depicted as rowdy in an attempt to ridicule the idea of women involved in politics. Cartoon attributed...

Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula, folio from the Shah Jahan Album, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper by Manohar, India, c. 1615. Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-27) bestowed the title of l'timad al-Daula (meaning...