historical images
"Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house"
"Our Women and the War" Civil War nurses. Winslow Homer. From Harper’s Weekly, September 6, 1862.
Scene between the National Guard and Black men, Chicago Race Riot, 1919
Jimmy Carter, Anwar El-Sadat, and Menachem Begin, at the signing of the Camp David Accords, 1979, back in the days when Democratic presidents tried to bring peace to the Middle.
Protest against the California Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the anti-affirmative action case, Los Angeles, May 7, 1977.
The Sacramento flood of 1862.
Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, from 1645 etching from Antwerp.
Oh gee, seems like a time to put of a picture of Nathaniel Banks, who became Speaker of the House in 1856 after a mere 133 votes spread over two.