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Bloody Knife (l. c. 1840-1876), Arkiara-Sioux scout for the US Army, c. 1873. He was George Armstrong Custer's favorite scout, confidante, and friend. Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Bloody Knife tried to warn Custer that there...

Major Marcus Reno (l. 1834-1889) who served with Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. Photograph by David Francis Barry, c. 1874-76. Denver Public Library.

Frederick Benteen (l. 1834-1898) in his later years. He served with Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and was present at the Washita Massacre (1868) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876).

A daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley Madison (1768-1849) in her old age, taken in 1846. By John Plumbe, Jr., from the New York Times.

First Lady Dolley Madison, wearing her trademark white turban. Watercolor on ivory by an unknown artist, c. 1805-1810. Yale University Art Gallery.

Dolley Madison, American First Lady, graphite on ivory miniature by Thomas Christian Lubbers after an original by Gilbert Stuart, January 1820. New York Historical Society.

A photo taken in Vienna during the Anschluss of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and the Austrian Nazi Arthur von Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946), Reich Governor of Vienna and head of the Austrian provincial government within the Third Reich. (German Federal...

A photograph showing a crowd in the Heldenplatz of Vienna on March 15, 1938 awaiting a speech by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) after the Anschluss of 12 March. (US National Archives)

A photograph showing German troops crossing the border with Austria during the Anschluss of March 1938. (Imperial War Museums)

Thomas Jefferson as US minister to France, oil on canvas by Mather Brown, 1786. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.