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A barricade in central Berlin during the March 1848 uprising.
March 1848: The German Revolutions
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Frankenstein's Monster
The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Kismet is a robot that can produce a range of human facial expressions.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.
“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force
A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton with two children
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
President James A. Garfield
The Assassination of President Garfield
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
Cartoon - Bosses of the Senate by Joseph Keppler
Voting Restrictions in a “Democratic” United States
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.
Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War
The GOP elephant and the Democratic Party's donkey.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.
From Sea to Shining Sea
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.
Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson
Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.
Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power
Rep Joe WIlson fan club with a poster that reads, "You lie!"
Brooks to Thurmond to Wilson
Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington DC.
Bicentennial for Two Great Emancipators
Portrait of President James K. Polk from 1846.
The Lessons of Mr. Polk’s War
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.
How We Learned to Love the Constitution