Images

The Abyssinian leaders Ras Seyum Mangasha (1887-1960), Ras Ghetacciù Abaté, and Ras Kebbedé Guebret, received in Rome by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) on 6 February 1937, swear allegiance after Abyssinia's annexation to the empire.

Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882), photograph by unknown photographer in Anna Murray Douglass, My Mother As I Recall Her by Rosetta Douglass Sprague, 1900. This photograph shows Anna Murray-Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass, later...

Men of Color To Arms! To Arms!, broadside by Frederick Douglass, Philadelphia, 1863. African-Americans played a crucial role in the Union war effort during the American Civil War; in fact, 10 percent of all Union forces were Black (186,000...

Portrait of Private Samuel R. Watkins, c. 1861-1865. Watkins (1839-1901) was an American author and Civil War veteran best known for his vivid war memoir Company Aytch: Or, A Side Show of the Big Show, published in 1882, in which he recalls...

Battle of Carabobo, oil on canvas mural by Martín Tovar y Tovar, 1887. This portion of the mural depicts an engagement fought at the Carabobo battlefield on June 24, 1821, between the patriot army, fighting for Venezuelan independence, and...

Ophelia, oil on canvas by John Everett Millais, 1851-1852. This painting depicts the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in which she falls into a stream and drowns after her father is murdered by Hamlet, her lover...

A 1922 painting by Ivan Vladimirov (1870-1947) showing the government requsitioning of grain during the Russian Civil War. This policy and the consequent peasant unrest was one of the reasons the Soviet government adopted Lenin's New Economic...

A 1920 photograph of Joseph Stalin (1878-1953).

Miniature portrait of Adrienne de La Fayette, wife of the revolutionary leader Marquis de Lafayette. By an unknown painter, circa late 18th century.

After three years of solitary imprisonment, the Marquis de Lafayette is reunited with his wife, Adrienne, and two daughters, who share his cell for the remainder of his confinement. Engraving by Eberhard Siegfried Henne, circa early 1800s...