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Buccaneers Searching for Loot
An early 20th-century illustration by Howard Pyle showing buccaneers obliging prisoners to reveal the whereabouts of their valuables in Cartagena. The buccaneers terrorized the Spanish Main from 1620 to 1697. (From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates...
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An Armed Pirate by Howard Pyle
A sketch of an armed pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy by Howard Pyle (1853-1911).
From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, New York, Harper and Brothers.
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Impressment of American Sailors into the British Navy
American sailors are impressed into the British Navy, wood engraving after Howard Pyle in Harper's Monthly, 1884.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
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Burning of Columbia, South Carolina
A depiction of the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, on 17 February 1865 during the American Civil War, illustration by William Waud in Harper's Weekly, 8 April 1865. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.
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War Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne at the Battle of Beecher Island
The defiance of Roman Nose, photographic reproduction of an illustration by R. F. Zagbaum from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. 91, #541 June, 1895, p. 53., depicting the Northern Cheyenne warrior/war chief Roman Nose taunting US army forces...
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Great Seal of William II of England
The Great Seal of William II of England (r. 1087-1100 CE). (From 'The Pictorial History of England', by George Lillie Craik etal., Harper & Brothers, 1846 CE).
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USS Constellation vs. La Vengeance, February 1800
USS Constitution engages the French frigate La Vengeance in February 1800 during the Quasi-War. Image by Benson Lossing, from Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History, 1912.
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US Marines Storm John Brown's 'Fort' at Harpers Ferry
US Maries storm John Brown's 'fort' at the climax of the Raid on Harpers Ferry (Oct 1859). This newspaper illustration is from an edition of Harper's Weekly, 29 Oct. 1859.
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Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
At the height of the COVID-19 lockdown in October 2020, Brown University hosted the Pandemics and Plagues in Antiquity webinar lecture series. Kyle Harper, Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma, hosted the first session. The...
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The Holocaust, Genocides, & Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course
During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of the nations they occupied. One of the groups that came under assault was the European Jewish population. More...
