Historical Images

Sugarhouse Prison
Rhinelander's sugar house & residence
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President John Adams
Portrait of John Adams
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Shay's Rebellion Illustration
Soldiers Fire on Protesters- Shays' Rebellion
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Articles

Franklin’s Forgotten Triumph: Scientific Testing (October 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 5)
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Private Flohr’s America (December 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 8)
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Brutal Reckoning in the Creek War (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
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Franklin’s London Home (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
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Loyalist Refuge (April 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 2)
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Samuel Adams Starts a Revolution (May 2023 | Volume: 68, Issue: 3)
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Washington Mythology (February 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 1)
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 2)
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Old Glory's Odyssey (February/March 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 1)
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Boston's Freedom Trail (July/August 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 4)
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The World Turned Upside Down (October 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 5)
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The Finest Books on the Young Republic: 1787 To 1860 (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
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The Best Presidential Insults (October 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 5)
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Mr. Franklin’s Leadership Maxims (August/September 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 5)
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Washington Gives Haughty General Lee the Boot at Monmouth (June/July 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 3)
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British Ships Lost in 1780 Hurricanes (September 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 5)
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Native Americans First See White Men from the Shore (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
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George Washington Invents the Presidency (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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The Dartmoor Massacre (October 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 5)
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Discovered: First Maps of the American Revolution  (Spring 2025 | Volume: 70, Issue: 2)
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Jefferson’s Shame? (May/June 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 3)
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Soldier in a Longboat (February 1960 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2)
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“The Law is King” (Winter 2026 | Volume: 71, Issue: 1)
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How Benedict Arnold's Treason Was Discovered (August/September 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 4)
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Jefferson’s Daughters (Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books | Volume: 64, Issue: 5)
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Children of Monticello (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 1)
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A Moose for the Misinformed: Jefferson and Natural History (Summer 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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With Little Less Than Savage Fury (Fall 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 3)
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March on Quebec (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
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The Genius of America: Our Constitution (Winter 2026 | Volume: 71, Issue: 1)
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Rediscovering Hand-Drawn Maps from the American Revolution and the Duke Who Collected Them (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
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Dolley Madison’s World (Spring 2026 | Volume: 71, Issue: 2)
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Historical Documents

George Mason
Virginia Declaration of Rights
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Washington's_Farewell_Address
George Washington's Farewell Address
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Map illustrating the outcomes of the Adams-Onis Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Pierce v. Society of Sisters
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The document on permanent display in the Rotunda is the enrolled original Joint Resolution passed by Congress on September 25, 1789, proposing 12-not 10-amendments to the Constitution.
U.S. Bill of Rights
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Signing the Magna Carta
Magna Carta
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Treaty of Peace with Algiers (1815)
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President Thomas Jefferson
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
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Vice President Charles Dawes
"The American Senate" Published
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Treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and Algieria 1816
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Collections

"The Spirit of '76" painted by Archibald M. Willard
Making Sense of the Fourth of July, by Pauline Maier
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The Electoral College by L.M. Glackens
The Electoral College: How It Got That Way and Why We're Stuck with It
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First Sunday School Class
Religious Education-Confronting Issues As Old As Public Schools, by Kevin Baker
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The Minuteman
America as a Gun Culture, by Richard Hofstadter
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)