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Lincoln and His Generals, lithographic print published by Jones & Clark, c. 1865. Depicted here is a seated President Abraham Lincoln in discussion with his generals, from left: Admiral David Dixon Porter, Admiral David Farragut, Major General...

Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham by Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

There was actually only one cause for the American Civil War: slavery. All the events leading to the Civil War, understood as steps moving steadily up the conflict, had slavery as the underlying cause for upset and increasing division between...

Stained glass from St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

Portrait of Benjamin Lincoln, a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (no relation to Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president). Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, October 1784. Independence National Historical...

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a planter, soldier, and politician from Mississippi, who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861-1865). A veteran of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848...

Swedish-born Hawaiian ethnologist and judge, Abraham Fornander (1812-1887). Photograph taken in c. 1878.

The Siege of Savannah (16 September to 20 October 1779) was a significant engagement in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Hoping to retake Savannah, Georgia, which had fallen to the British the previous year, a Franco-American force...

Piers Gaveston (lived circa 1284-1312) was a Gascon-born English nobleman, famous as the favorite of King Edward II of England (reign 1307-1327). Gaveston's humble origins and undue influence over the king caused jealousy and resentment among...

An effigy of Eleanor of Castile (1241 - 1290 CE), queen-consort of Edward I of England (r. 1272 - 1307 CE). The effigy is from Eleanor of Castile's tomb in the Lincoln Cathedral in England, which was a contemporary replica of the tomb where...