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Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, Georgia, No. 2, photograph by George N. Barnard, c. 1865. Depicted here are Confederate earthworks from the siege of Atlanta, part of the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War, in which Confederate forces...

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, Georgia, No. 1, photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. Depicted here are Confederate earthworks from the siege of Atlanta, part of the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War, in which Confederate forces...

Siege of Atlanta, lithographic print by L. Prang & Co. from a work of Thure de Thulstrup, c. 1888. Depicted here is Major General William Tecumseh Sherman observing the field at the siege of Atlanta, part of the Atlanta Campaign in the American...

Battle of Atlanta, lithographic print by Kurz & Allison, c. 1888. Depicted here is the death of Major General James B. McPherson at the Battle of Atlanta (22 July 1864), felled by Confederate gunfire, during the Atlanta Campaign in the American...

Portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860-1865. Resigning his short-lived position of superintendent at the Louisiana Military Academy, the Ohio-born William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) headed north, away...

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...