Images

A photograph of the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier in February 1942. The Yorktown would play an important role in both the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway later that year in the Pacific War against Japan during the Second...

A photograph showing the final moments of the USS Lexington aircraft carrier in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). Naval History & Heritage Command

A map of the Coral Sea in the south-west Pacific Ocean.

Ancient Britons opposing the Roman landings, illustration by Joseph Martin Kronheim, included in Pictures of English History: From the Earliest Times to the Present Period, plates I - IV, London, 1868. This image is included in a Victorian...

Jewelry from Roman Britain, Chalkwell, circa 200 CE. This assortment of personal ornaments showcases the broad spectrum of jewelry and adornments worn by the elite of Roman Britain. These objects show both the presence of an affluent class...

Tasciovanus stater coin with wreath, horse, and armed rider, The Norweb Collection 1969.151, England, Catuvellauni, circa 20 BCE to 10 CE. A stater was an ancient medium of exchange in the form of a coin made of electrum, silver, or gold...

General George B. McClellan with staff and dignitaries, photograph appearing in The Photographic History of the Civil War (1911), 1861. From left to right: Gen. George W. Morell, Lt. Col. A. V. Colburn, Gen. McClellan, Lt. Col. N. B. Sweitzer...

Portrait of George B. McClellan, oil on canvas by Julian Scott, 1888. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

President Abraham Lincoln with General George B. McClellan in McClellan's tent after the Battle of Antietam from the American Civil War, photograph by Alexander Gardner, 3 October 1862. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

General George B. McClellan and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy, photograph, c. 1860-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.