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Stancioff House, photograph by Acroterion, Urbana, Maryland, USA, 12 March 2009. The Stancioff House, also known as the Landon House, was the site of J. E. B. Stuart's Sabers and Roses Ball of 8 September 1862.

Portrait of Heros von Borcke in 1864, original copyright by E. O. Wiggins, c. 1914. Von Borcke (1835-1895) was a Prussian Confederate who served under J. E. B. Stuart in the American Civil War. Best known for his Memoirs of the Confederate...

The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transformation (c. 1250–1100 BCE) was a period of major political, economic, and social disruption across the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. Highly interconnected palace-based states...

The end of the First World War (1914–1918) transformed Europe and the Near East through the military defeat of the Central Powers and the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman empires. Although the Armistice of Compiègne...

Lieutenant General Winfield Scott at West Point, N.Y., photograph by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., 10 June 1862. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Maria DeHart Mayo (1789–1862), wife of General Winfield Scott, oil on canvas by Asher Brown Durand, 1831. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

General Winfield Scott at the age of 49, painting by George Catlin, 1835.

Winged Nike relief, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Ephesus, Selçuk, İzmir, Türkiye, 2 March 2026. This marble relief of the Greek goddess of victory Nike (known to the Romans as Victoria) is dated to the 1st-2nd century CE. The relief...

The Parthian, or Arsacid, Empire (c. 247 BCE–224 CE) was an Iranian imperial state that emerged as Seleucid authority weakened in northeastern Iran. Arsaces I (reign c. 247–211 BCE), leader of the Parni, established the dynasty, but its transformation...

William the Conqueror’s campaign for London formed the decisive second phase of the Norman invasion of England in 1066. After defeating Harold II (reign January–October 1066) at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October, William, Duke of Normandy...