Images

A photograph showing victims of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka. This massacre occurred around January 1919 in the Palermo forest, near Rakvere, Estonia.

A photograph of a group of Red Guards militia outside their factory during the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917. Vulcan factory, Petrograd.

Frederick Douglass in his early 30s, daguerreotype by Samuel J. Miller, circa 1847-52. Art Institute of Chicago.

A 1920 Bolshevik propaganda poster issued after the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 to convey the message that the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) was clearing Russia of its enemies. The title reads: "Comrade Lenin cleans...

A 1920 photograph of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Lenin led the Bolshevik faction of socialists in pre-revolution Russia and then seized power in November 1917 in the Bolshevik Revolution, becoming head of the Soviet state.

The Collier Brig 'Mary', showing two views of the same vessel, oil on canvas painting by John Scott, 1855. This brig would have been similar to the Creole, famous for the 1841 Creole Mutiny, the most successful slave revolt in US history...

Parliament Park, Nassau, Bahamas. In November 1841, the slave ship Creole sailed into port at Nassau following the Creole Mutiny, the most successful slave revolt in US history. Photograph by Ivan Curra, 2014.

The Russian Aurora naval cruiser which famously participated in the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 by firing upon Petrograd's Winter Palace. The ship is seen here anchored in St. Petersburg (formerly Petrograd).

Confederate soldiers advance through the woods toward the Union lines at the Battle of Chickamauga (19-20 Sept 1863), drawing on paper by Alfred R. Waud, 1863. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The tattered coat worn by Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne (1828-1864) when he was killed at the Battle of Franklin on 30 November 1864. Museum of the Confederacy in Appomattox, Virginia. Photo taken by Farrargirl, 2017.