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Spanish commanders in the foreground plan a defense of Cadiz as a hundred English ships adavance upon the port city — The Defence of Cadiz Against the English

Large brick Federal-style mansion with a two-story colonnaded entryway — William Henry Harrison’s Grouseland

Portrait of Anna Symmes Harrison wearing a head covering decorated with bows — Anna Symmes Harrison

Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee in full dress military uniform with epaulettes — Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee

Washington Artifacts on Display

Elderly Black man wearing a checkered waistcoat and large tie — Leonard Norris from Arlington House

“Northampton County Order Book, No. 18, f. 24” (July 13, 1726)

A stereographic view of a well-dressed older Black woman seated with two daughters, one a young woman, the other a very young child — Selina Norris Gray with Two of Her Children

Grouseland

William Henry Harrison

Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Printed text under the title "The Usefulness of Negro Labor" — Seventh-Grade Textbook Ignoring the Cruelty of Slavery

Enrgved two-sided newspaper masthead with enslaved men, women, and children being sold on one side, and happy scenes of libertaion on the other side — Masthead for The Liberator

Frederick Law Olmsted as a young man with mustache, brimmed cap, and a striped overcoat with an attached cape — Frederick Law Olmsted

Bacon’s Rebellion

Round brass political campaign medal with an image of a log cabin and a barrel of hard cider surrounded by the phrase, "The People's Choice in the Year 1840" — “The Peoples Choice in the Year 1840”

1840 Campaign Handkerchief

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Campaign Banner

Self-emancipating man hiding in the Great Dismal Swamp crouches in the thick undergowth and cradles a rifle — Osman.

Property Owner Displays the Mississippi State and Confederate Flags

Virginia’s History

Cover of eleventh-grade textbook showing scenes within the outlines of a map of Virginia — Cavalier Commonwealth: History and Government of Virginia

A white woman administers some liquid or medicine to a bedridden Black child, while an enslaved woman and two enslaved children look on and help — Enslavement Presented as a Benevolent Institution

“How the Negroes Lived under Slavery”

Titlk page for seventh-grade textbook includes the Confederate flag along with the Virginia and United States flags — Title Page for Seventh Grade Textbook

A two-part image shows George Washington on horseback leading Continental Army troops, and Thomas Jefferson with architectural plans in front of the Rotunda at the Univeristy of Virginia — Cover of Seventh-Grade Textbook

All-White Virginia Classroom

“Lee Surrenders”

Confederate general Robert E. Lee sits astride his horse while surveying a Confederate encampment — Heroic Depiction of Confederate General Robert E. Lee

Men, women, and children wave hats, a handkerchief, and Confederate battle flags as Confederate troops march down a street in Richmond — Confederate Soldiers Heading Off to War

Late eighteenth-century land plat dividing part of the Northwest Territory into equal land plats for white settlement — Native Lands Appropriated for White Settlement in the Northwest Territory

Colored portrait of Tecumseh wearing a British uniform with epaulets and a medallion of King George III — Portrait of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh

Colorful three-quarter portrait of Shawnee religious leader Tenskwatawa in native garb, holding beads in one hand and a stick-like object bearing a flame in the other — Ten-sqúat-a-way, The Open Door, Known as The Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh

Portrait of William Henry Harrison

Battle of Tippecanoe.

Six people—one in prayer, two others with handkerchiefs over their faces—surround President William Henry Harrison on his deathbbed — Death of Harrison, April 4 A.D. 1841.

General Wm. H. Harrison

Cartoon showing William Henry Harrison at the head of a train pulling a barrel of hard cider and a log cabin, and forcing his 1840 presidential opponent, Martin Van Buren, off the road — The People’s Line—Take care of the Locomotive

Lithographed broadside with images of William Henry Harrison as a war hero, a seasoned politician, and as a humble and welcoming farmer — Gen. William Henry Harrison

Boxwood allée leading to the Georgian-style brick manor house at Berkeley Plantation — Berkeley Plantation

President William Henry Harrison's 1840 inaugural parade with marching band, cavalrymen, and assembled crowds celebrating — Presidential Inauguration of Wm. H. Harrison, in Washington City, D.C., on the 4th of March 1841.

Colored map of King William County showing geographic and man-made features — Map of King William County

Three maroon adolescents pose in Jamaica—one holding a pile of wood atop his head, another with a machete, and a third carrying an unidentified tool on his shoulder — Maroon Adolescents Collecting Wood

Trelawney Town, the Chief Residence of the Maroons.

Hand-written two page docut signed by George Washington and other — Dismal Swamp Company’s Use of Enslaved Labor

Bald cypress trees emerging from Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge — Bald Cypress Trees in Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Hand-colored map of Great Dismal Swamp with Lake Drummond at the center — Great Dismal Swamp

Refugees Rushing to Washington, D.C.

Dred; Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

Segregated Troops During World War II

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