Historical Images

Map
Map of Troop Movement During Shays’ Rebellion
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The White Man's Burden cartoon
The White Man's Burden
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Court of France
Benjamin Franklin at the Court of France
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Magna Britannia
Magna Britannia
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
General Custer's death struggle. The battle of the Little Big Horn
General Custer's death struggle. The battle of the Little Big Horn
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Lincoln cartoon
The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sugarhouse Prison
Rhinelander's sugar house & residence
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
William Franklin
William Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
HMS Jersey
HMS Jersey Prison Ship
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Cuban Melodrama cartoon
The Cuban Melodrama
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Custer’s Camp at Hidden Wood Creek
Custer’s Camp at Hidden Wood Creek
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea Cartoon
The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Map
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt using the Monroe Doctrine to keep Europe out of Santo Domingo
Hands Off!
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

Historical Documents

The Royal Academy of Farting
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Washington Letter to Benjamin Lincoln
George Washington Letter to Benjamin Lincoln
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Picture of OAS's fifty-second Assembly in Lima, Peru
Organization of American States (OAS) Charter
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba, Volume VI
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Fidel Castro signing the first agrarian law in 1959
Law #3 of the Sierra Maestra on Agrarian Reform
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
James Warren
Letter from John Adams to James Warren, 7 October 1775
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Sierra Maestra Manifesto
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Republican Party Platform
National Republican platform adopted by National Republican Convention, held in Chicago. May 17, 1860.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sioux Treaty
Sioux Treaty of 1868- Excerpts
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Longstreet Letter
Battlefield Dispatches Gettysburg- July 3, 1863
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Philip Frenau
"The British Prison Ship"
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Franklin
“Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Penelope J. Corfield
All People Are Living Histories—Which Is Why History Matters
Metahistory & Historiography, Multiple Eras
Political cartoon depicting President Roosevelt using the Monroe Doctrine to keep Europe out of Santo Domingo
Roosevelt Corollary
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Cover Page
An appeal to the Congress of the United States from the Society of Old Brooklynites : for the erection of a monument over the remains of 11,500 prisoners who died on board the British prison ships during the Revolutionary War- Excerpt
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Copley Medal
Copley Medal
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Sitting Bull Arrest Letter
Sitting Bull Arrest Letter
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Dead Soldiers at Gettysburg
Civil War Battle Statistics
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Cuban Missile Crisis
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Picture of Henry Teller, the author of the Teller Amendment
Teller Amendment
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Alliance for Progress Postage
Alliance for Progress
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Epitaph
Franklin’s Epitaph
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763), ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Rio Treaty
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Lincoln First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Nixon’s "Checkers" Speech
Richard Nixon’s "Checkers" Speech
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), Metahistory & Historiography, Multiple Eras

Collections

US Army helicopters fire into the tree line to cover South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965
First Blood In Vietnam, by Stanley Karnow
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The Custer Fight, by Charles Marion Russell
The Battle of Little Bighorn, by Nathaniel Philbrick
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Abraham Lincoln & Hannibal Hamlin
America’s Oddest Election, by Harold Holzer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s Years in London, by Joan Paterson Kerr
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
A scene from the Vietnam War
My Lai, Thirty Years After, by Rachel Louise Snyder
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The Battle of Gettysburg
Slaughter on Cemetery Ridge, by Stephen Sears
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Chromolithograph entitled "Custer's Last Fight," National Museum of American History
A Road They Did Not Know, by Larry McMurtry
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Shay's Rebellion Illustration
The “Horrid And Unnatural Rebellion” Of Daniel Shays, by Alden T. Vaughan
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Franklin at the Court of France
Franklin Charms Paris, by Tom Fleming
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)