Images

Depiction of the Battle of Shiloh (6-7 April 1862), artwork by Thure de Thulstrup, printed by L. Prang & Co., c. 1888. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne of Field and Staff, 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Confederate States Army General Staff in uniform. Photograph by Ben Oppenheimer, between 1861 and 1864. Cleburne, known as "Stonewall of the...

Confederate troops assault the Union lines at the Battle of Franklin (30 Nov 1864), one of the final major battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865), print by Kurz and Allison, 1891. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Bolshevik, oil on canvas by Boris Kustodiev, 1920. Dedicated to the Russian Revolution of 1917, Kustodiev depicts a collosal figure flying the red banner of the new Soviet state as he leads the Moscow crowds through the streets. The...

Freedom Loan, poster by Boris Kustodiev, 1917. A Russian Revolution era poster promoting the Freedom (or Liberty) Loan, a proposal of the new Russian Provisional Government to control an unraveling economy amidst the war effort against the...

Photograph of the demolition of the monument to Alexander III in Moscow, July 1918. As Tsarist Russia fell in 1917, so did the monuments of its monarchs. The colossal bronze statue to Alexander III was dismantled in July 1918 following a...

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...