Biography
Having completed his degree in history, Zachary has since worked in journal publishing and a university press. Most recently, he has joined the encyclopedia as an image editor, combining both his interests in the telling of history and for the visual recording and preservation of the past.
Current favourite slice of history: Interregnum England (the Van Dyke beards!; the woodcut prints!; the folk ballads!).
Education
- B.A. (Hons) History, McGill University
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Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop
The First Sanctum of Our President, photograph by T. M. Schleier, Greeneville, Tennessee, c. 1865. Before he entered...
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Death of Andrew Johnson
Death of the Hon. Andrew Johnson: U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Ex-President of the United States, lithographic print...
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U.S. Senate Ticket to the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
U.S. Senate gallery ticket to the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, Washington...
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Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences
The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, oil on paperboard by John Steuart Curry...
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Early Homestead, Nicodemus, Kansas
Early homestead, Nicodemus, Kansas, c. late 19th century. The Homestead Act of 1862 accelerated settlement of...
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Calypso
Calypso, oil on canvas by George Hitchcock, c. 1906. Hitchcock here renders the mythological nymph Calypso, famously told as the captor...
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Odysseus Constructs a Raft to Depart the Island of Ogygia
Ulysses on the Island of the Goddess Calypso, etching and engraving on laid paper by Willem Basse...
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Hermes and Calypso
Mercury and Calypso, black ink on ivory wove paper, c. 1775-1826. Hermes (Mercury, to the Romans) brings to the nymph Calypso...
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Charles Sumner
Portrait of Charles Sumner, oil on canvas by Edgar Parker, 1874. Depicted here is the American statesman Charles Sumner, whose...
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Ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment
Mending the Family Kettle, wood engraving appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 16 June 1866. In...
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NAACP Strangles Jim Crow
"Come, let us take counsel together," poster by Elton C. Fax, 1944. In this NAACP poster advertising a Wartime Conference...
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School Integration, Washington, D.C.
School integration in Washington, D.C., photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 27 May 1955. Depicted here in the...
