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General Franklin Pierce
Portrait of Franklin Pierce in military garb, engraving by Waterman Lilly Ormsby, c. 1852. Before Franklin Pierce would come to hold the American presidency, he enlisted in the summer of 1846 to fight in the Mexican-American...
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Great Footrace for the Presidential Purse, 1852
Great Footrace for the Presidential Purse ($100,000 and Pickings) Over the Union Course 1852, lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1852. Here, a cartoon parodies the three candidates in the US presidential election...
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Map of the Ancient Near East after Hammurabi, c. 1700 BCE - Kingdoms, Cities & Shifting Power in the Bronze Age
By c. 1700 BCE, the political landscape of the Ancient Near East had been reshaped by the rapid rise and fragmentation of two unusually large territorial...
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Map of the Korean War, 1950–1953 - Major Campaigns and Front-Line Movements
The Korean War (1950–1953) began on 25 June 1950 when communist North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), invaded South Korea, the Republic of Korea (ROK), across...
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Map of the Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492–1504 - Routes, Landfalls & Colonial Expansion in the Americas
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506) led four transatlantic expeditions between 1492 and 1504 under the patronage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand...
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Enrico Fermi
A photograph of the Italian scientist Enrico Fermi who contributed to the Manhattan Project and the development of an atomic bomb during the Second World War (1939-45).
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Otto Han & Lise Meitner
A 1912 photograph of Otto Han and Lise Meitner, key figures in the development of nuclear fission.
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Little Boy Atomic Bomb
A phiotograph of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Imperial War Museums
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Trinity Test Explosion, 1945
A photograph of the 'Trinity' atomic bomb test at a remote spot in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico on 16 July 1945. The test was part of the top secret Manhattan Project. The explosion was equal to 18,600 tons...
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Groves & Oppenheimer, 1942
A 1942 photograph of Colonel Leslie R. Groves (later promoted to Lieutenant General), a military engineer who was put in overall charge of the secret Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb during WWII. On the right...
