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A gouache on paper painting titled The March for Jobs and Freedom 1963 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Martin Luther King leads the march for jobs and freedom in front of the Lincoln...

The Norns Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. Illustration by Ludwig Burger from page 231 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner and Jakob Nover, Otto Spamer, Leipzig & Berlin, 1882.

A gouache on paper painting titled The War of the Currents 1907 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The genius and the rivalry of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, pioneers of electricity...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Manhattan Project (the Trinity Test) by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The Trinity test was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July...

West Point and the Highlands, colour engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt, 1869. Depicted here is a view from the heights of the west bank of the Hudson River, looking northward along the valley. The United States Military Academy, also commonly...

Artificial Leg, photographic print, c. 1864. With more than 20,000 Union soldiers surviving surgical amputations in the last three years of the conflict, the scale and carnage of the American Civil War hastened advancements in the art and...

Portrait of Confederate General John Bell Hood, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1865. Depicted here in civilian clothing is John Bell Hood (1831-1879), the Confederate general who rose to lead the Army of Tennessee in the final year of the...

Portrait of Confederate General John Bell Hood, photograph by J. A. Sheldon, c. 1861-1865. Depicted here is a uniformed John Bell Hood (1831-1879), the Confederate general who rose to lead the Army of Tennessee in the final year of the American...

Exterior view of the ruins of the Roman amphitheatre in ancient Thysdrus, photograph by Carole Raddato, El Djem, Tunisia, 16 February, 2023. The architecture of the Amphitheatre of El Djem is an impressive feat of engineering, featuring...

This 11th-century Byzantine seal is presumed to be the official seal of Eustathios Rhomaios (DUMBARTON OAKS BZS.1958.106.5598). The date as well as the title and office on the seal match those of Rhomaios. It is 33 mm in diameter with a field...