Images

Portrait of Leon Trotsky, photographic negative on glass by the Meurisse Press Agency, October 1921. Trotsky (1879-1940) was a prominent figure in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the subsequent civil war, wherein he...

Photograph of revolutionaries in Petrograd taking aim, 1917. Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, was the focal site of the February Revolution of 1917, where mass protest and armed clashes against monarchist control precipitated the...

Cadets That Died in Defense of the Fatherland the 13 of September of 1847. Illustration of cadets who died in the Battle of Chapultepec, book drawing by an unknown artist, included in México a través de los siglos, fourth book by Juan de...

Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847. Lithograph depicting the US Army's taking of Chapultepec castle, printed by unknown artist, possibly published by James Baillie, ca. 08 February 1848. The Battle of Chapultepec took place...

War News from Mexico, artistic depiction of US public reaction to news from war against Mexico, oil on canvas painting by Richard Caton Woodville Sr., Düsseldorf, 1848. This scene shows a range of reactions to news from the warfront. The...

To Arms! To Arms! 100 Men for the United States Army!, military recruitment poster in Millersburg, Ohio, printed broadside (notice); proclamation by T. L. Hart, 01 February 1847. This recruiting poster was part of a coordinated effort by...

Plucked : or, The Mexican eagle before the war! The Mexican eagle after the war!, satirical cartoon from a US periodical showing the effect of the Mexican-American War on Mexico, illustration in Yankee Doodle, v. 2, no. 32, p. 55, 15 May...

Havana Harbor entrance in 1841, hand-colored steel engraving from Meyer's Universum, volume 8, 1841. This is approximately how the harbor would have looked in 1839 when the schooner La Amistad left with its cargo of 53 illegally kidnapped...

Abolitionist Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), founder of the Amistad Committee that raised funds for the legal defense of the 53 Africans taken from the ship La Amistad and eventually paid for their return home to West Africa. Massachusetts Historical...

The Honorable Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863), oil on canvas portrait by Rufus Wright, 1845. Baldwin was the attorney for the 53 Africans who took the ship La Amistad in 1839 and challenged the US legal system in the subsequent trial...