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A gouache on paper painting titled Sitting Bull 1831-1890 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux, he led the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 in which the...

A gouache on paper painting titled Custer's Last Stand 1876 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. General George Armstrong Custer, a United States cavalry commander was killed along...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Constitution 1787 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The United States Constitution: "We The People of the United States..." This scene brings...

Portrait of Prince Dara Shikoh, gouache and gold on paper, c. 18th century. A patron of the arts, author on comparative religion, and translator, Dara Shikoh (1615-1659) was heir apparent to the throne of the Mughal Empire until his death...

Aztec Sun Stone, illustration in Antonio León y Gama's Historical and Chronological Description of the Two Stones Which Were Found in 1790 During the Repaving of the Main Plaza in Mexico, 1792. Antonio León y Gama's (1735-1802) work, published...

A gouache on paper painting titled The Civil War 1861-5 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. On the left, President Lincoln and Union Generals Ambrose Burnside and Ulysses Grant. On...

Ceramic Mesoamerican canine vessel from South-Central Veracruz, Mexico, c. 600 to c. 900. This open ceramic bowl from the Veracruz Late Classic period features a mould-made effigy of a canine resembling a xoloitzcuintle, a wrinkly, hairless...

A gouache on paper painting titled Abraham Lincoln Assassination 1865 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a...

A game of shatranj, section of a miniature painting in the Baysunghur Shahnameh illustrated manuscript by Mulla ʿAlī & Amīr Ḵalīl, 1430. Depicted here is a 6th-century game of shatranj, a predecessor to contemporary chess, being demonstrated...

The Mechanical Turk, illustration in Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pamphlet On Mr. von Kempelen's Chess Player and its Replica, 1789. This drawing depicts how von Racknitz believed the so-called Mechanical Turk, a supposed chess-playing...