Images

Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski, photograph by Karol Beyer, c. 1861-1863. Appointed by the Tsar to dampen brewing discontent and growing independence feeling in Warsaw, Wielopolski (1803-1877), a Polish aristocrat, devised a plan to conscript...

Portrait of Romuald Traugutt, photograph, c. 1862. Romuald Traugutt (1826-1864) was the final military leader of the ill-fated January Uprising of 1863, an attempt to regain Polish independence from Tsarist Russia. Traugutt, from his clandestine...

The Battle, illustration in Album Grottgera by Artur Grottger, 1888. Depicted in this illustration are insurgents participating in the ill-fated January Uprising of 1863, an attempt to regain Polish independence from Tsarist Russia. National...

Polonia 1863 (Poland Enchained), oil on canvas painting by Jan Matejko, 1864. Depicted in Matejko's allegorical artwork is the ill-fated January Uprising of 1863, with the central figure in black, a personification of Poland, resting her...

A 1906 photograph of Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913). The field marshal developed the Schlieffen plan, Germany's plan of attack on France devised in 1905 for execution should war break out between the two states. The plan aimed to move...

A gouache on paper painting titled Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The tense stand-off that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. President J...

A gouache on paper painting titled The 19th Amendment, 1920 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The women suffrage activists "the silent sentinels" demonstrating for the right to vote...

A gouache on paper painting titled McCarthyism 1950 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Joseph McCarthy, flanked by Roy Kohn and David Schine, leading his anti-Communist crusade. William...

A gouache on paper painting titled Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower 1890-1969 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. A five-star general and the 34th president of the USA (1953-1961). Eisenhower...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Truman Doctorate 1947 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The Truman Doctrine was the formal declaration that the US will actively oppose the...