Howard Chandler Christy, Signing of the Constitution, Architect of the Capitol, House wing, east stairway
Cicero Denounces Catiline by Cesare Maccari, 1889, Palazzo Madama, Rome
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 by J.L.G. Ferris, c. 1932, Prints and Photographs, Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-9904
Cincinnatus Abandons the Plow to Dictate Laws in Rome by Juan Antonio Ribera, c. 1806, Museo del Prado, Madrid/Wikimedia Commons
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–1498, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy, Wikimedia Commons
John Signs the Great Charter by James William Edmund Doyle, 1864, A Chronicle of England/Wikimedia Commons
The Mayflower Compact 1620 by J.L.G. Ferris, c. 1932, Library of Congress/LC-USZC4-7155
The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regt. by Paul Revere after Henry Pelham, 1770, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-01657
The Albany Congress, 1754, by Allyn Cox, 1973-74, Architect of the Capitol/Flickr
The Foundation of American Government by Henry Hintermeister, c. 1925, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZCN4-220
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, 1820, Architect of the Capitol/Davepape/Wikimedia Commons
Signing of the Constitutionby Howard Chandler Christy, 1940, Architect of the Capitol/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons
The Rebels of ‘76-Or the First Announcement of the Great Declaration, 1860, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-03091
Haverly’s European and American Mastodon Minstrels, c. 1898, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-11109
Old State House, Boston (cropped), Ingfbruno/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0
The looking glass for 1787: A house divided against itself cannot stand by Amos Doolittle, engraver, 1787, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-17522
Portrait of John Jay by Gilbert Stuart, 1794, National Gallery of Art/ Scewing/Wikimedia Commons
U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-14781
Youngest Parader in New York City Suffragist Parade, American Press Association/Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress/LC-USZC4-5585
Bipartisan congressional leadership meeting, February 2010, official White House Photo by Pete Souza, White House/Wikimedia Commons
The Peacemakers by George Peter Alexander Healy, c. 1868, White House Historical Association/Wikimedia Commons
Operation Safe Streets, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)/Wikimedia Commons
Sojourner Truth, 1864, Google Art Project/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, NPG.78.207/Wikimedia Commons
Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 1913, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-93552/Wikimedia Commons
Statue of Liberty, Visions of America, LLC/Eye Wire
U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, left, Carl Levin, and John McCain, Kevin S. O’Brien/U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons
Senate Hearing of Tim Manning to serve as Deputy Administrator of FEMA for National Preparedness, Bill Koplitz/FEMA/Wikimedia Commons
Mount Rushmore, Visions of America, LLC/Eye Wire
Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of State, Department of Housing, Department of the Navy, Department of Health and Human Services
Equal Justice Under Law: From the Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C., Visions of America, LLC/EyeWire Images
Montana State Capitol Building, 1896, W.E. Stephens & Co., Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-03345
Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert W. Weir, 1844, Architect of the Capitol/Wikimedia Common
Hall of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG- highsm-15714
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1511, Sistine Chapel/Wikimedia Commons
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931/Wikimedia Commons
Parade of Tartans, Murray, Kentucky, September 12, 2008 (cropped), Bkcmac/WikimediaCommons/CCBY-SA 3.0
Timothy Dixon, 22nd Security Forces Squadron patrolman, guides Tech. Sgt. Dale Barbour, 22nd SFS flight chief, into a patrol car during a flight-level exercise, Nov. 24, 2014, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Victor J. Caputo/ Wikimedia Commons
Accused flanked by attorneys at sentencing (cropped), courtroom sketch by Butch Krieger/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0
Visions of America, LLC/EyeWire Images
Newly naturalized citizens take the Oath of Allegiance (cropped), NPS Photo by Michael Quinn/Flickr/CC BY 2.0
Don Norman from FEMA’s Individual Assistance program, addresses a community meeting at the Buttonwoods Community Center on assistance available to individuals and business affected by the recent flooding, Warwick, Rhode Island, Michael Rieger/FEMA/ Wikimedia Commons
Civil rights movement co-founder Dr. Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Mrs. Juanita Abernathy follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther KingJr. as the Abernathy children lead the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, march in 1965, Abernathy Family/Wikimedia Commons
A view of the Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin, East Germany, from West Berlin on December 1, 1989, SSGT F. Lee Corkran, Department of Defense/Wikimedia Commons
Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin salutes the U.S. flag, August 1, 1971, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Photo ID: AS15-88-11866/Wikimedia Commons
United Nations members' flags at the UN Headquarters (cropped), New York, Aotearoa/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0
General George Washington Resigning His Commission by John Trumbull, 1817, Architect of the Capitol/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons
Main Reading Room, view from above showing researcher desks, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-11604