Historical Images

Political Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Earhart's flight started in Oakland, California and made it all the way to Darwin, Australia. She was only 3 stops away from returning to Oakland when she disappeared.
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
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ERA 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
William Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Map
ERA 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
George Armstrong Custer
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Secession Movement Political Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Historical photograph of the assassination of President Garfield
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
John Calvin
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Columbus image
ERA 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
England's Vietnam
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763), ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Nurses Being Instructed on the Use of Respirator for a Polio Patient
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Picture of "School Begins" Political Cartoon
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Emancipation by Thomas Nast
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Shay's Rebellion Illustration
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Join, Or Die Cartoon
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Women's Suffrage Map
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Truman Wipes out Segregation in Armed Forces
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Reported polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2022
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
HMS Jersey
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
L'Amerique Septentrionale 1700 Map by Guilaume Delisle
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Magna Britannia
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Alfred Hitchcock
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present), Multiple Eras
Henry Knox Travel Kit
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Many Faces of Polio
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Clara Barton
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lincoln cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Sir, I Think I Figured Out What the Clinton Legacy Is…
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The White Man's Burden cartoon
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
A Group of Immigrants Outside a Building on Ellis Island
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
HMS Jersey
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Chrysler Advertisement 1928 Chrysler Imperial
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
The Founders Would Have Loved It, political cartoon by Herb Block
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The Cuban Melodrama cartoon
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
The able doctor, or, America swallowing the bitter draught
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Dyer Anti-Lynching bill and the Congressmen who voted against it.
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
The Freedmen's Bureau Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
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)
Map of Salem
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government cartoon
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Political Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Map
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)