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The massacre at New Orleans, tempera painting by Thomas Nast, 1867. Nast depicts here President Andrew Johnson adorned in kingly dress as the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 unfolds around him, wherein White rioters, many...

Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans (8 Jan 1815), oil on canvas by Dennis Malone Carter, 1856. The Historic New Orleans Collection.

A bird's eye view of the Battle of New Orleans (8 Jan 1815), oil on canvas by Jean Hyacinthe de Laclotte, 1815. New Orleans Museum of Art.

The Town Meeting was a unique form of local participation in government that became popular in New England. This video goes into detail as to how this phenomenon developed, its limitations, and...

Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human. Its origins went back to 14th-century Italy...

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) was the founder of fascism and dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He led the country into a highly authoritarian regime and then dragged it into the Second World War (1939-45) on...

The 1851 Great Exhibition was held in the purpose-built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, to showcase the latest developments in engineering, science, and the arts, as well as objects of cultural significance from Britain and...

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a Czech composer best known for his symphonies, symphonic poems, operas, and chamber music. Dvořák's best-loved works include his 9th Symphony (From The New World), the American quartet, and his Slavonic...

The French Republican calendar, also known as the French Revolutionary calendar, was created during the French Revolution (1789-1799) in an attempt to build a new society separate from the vestiges of the Ancien Régime...

The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was the last great colonial conflict waged between Great Britain and France in North America. Often considered a theater of the global Seven Years'...