Images

Photograph of J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) as a young man, probably around the time of his West Point graduation, circa 1854.

Confederate cavalry general J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864), published in The photographic history of the Civil War by Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert Sampson Lanier, 1911.

In his so-called 'Ride Around McClellan', Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) humiliates the Union army and gathers vital intelligence during the Peninsula Campaign (March-July 1862), chromolithograph by Henry Alexander Ogden...

Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Elizabethan poet, soldier, and courtier, oil on canvas by an unknown artist after an original, c. 1576. National Portrait Gallery, London.

The fatal wounding of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) at the Battle of Zutphen (22 September 1586);oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1806. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.

Portrait of an Elizabethan lady, thought to be Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (1563-1607); sister to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and muse of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, who used her as inspiration for his sonnet sequence Astrophel and...

Portrait of Hubert Languet (1518-1581), French Huguenot diplomat. Print by Martin Bernigeroth, 1685-1733. The British Museum, London.

View of the town of Pictou, Nova Scotia, from the Jitney Trail. Pictou was the home of the Reverend James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830), the first published abolitionist in the history of the region now known as Canada.

The 14th century was a time of crisis and transformation across much of the world. Plague, war, shifting power structures, and intellectual ferment reshaped societies from Asia to Africa, Europe to the Americas. Despite profound instability...

A photograph taken during the Russian Revolution of 1905 showing a train derailed by striking railway workers at Tiflis.