221 illustrations of famous people including: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Alexander Agassiz, Louisa May Alcott, Alexander the Great, Ethan Allen, Washington Allston, Hans Christian Andersen, Major John Andre, Queen Anne of England, Susan B. Anthony, Marie Antoinette, Aristotle, Benedict Arnold, and many more
Son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. Hero of the Trojan War. Thetis is said to have dipped him, while…
A British military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was with Burgoyne in his…
(1750-1815) Lady Harriet followed her husband, Maj. John Acland, through Burgoyne's campaign of the…
(1807-1886) Diplomat and member of the House of Representatives. He was able to lobby to keep Britain…
Son of John Quincy Adams, grandson of John Adams an American lawyer, politician, diplomat, and writer.
"John Adams, a once proud reservist, was popular, and anti-French feeling irresistible."—E. Benjamin…
An illustration of John Adams who proposed Washington for Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.…
The wife of John Quincy Adams. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
An American statesman, politician, writer, brewer, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.…
Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was a statesman, political philosopher, and one…
Prof. Adler was a Jewish intellectual who founded the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.
Gustav Adolph was the founder of the Swedish Empire at the beginning of what is widely regarded as the…
"Gustavus Adolphus entered Germany at the head of 16,000 men. Among some of the Protestants there was…
Scipio Africanus (236-183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic.
(1807-1873) Swiss-American geologist and naturalist famous for his study of glaciers.
Rodolphus Agricola (Phrisius) (?February 17, 1444, August 28, 1443?[1] – October 27, 1485) was a pre-Erasmian…
Lead of the Philippine insurgents in their insurrection against Spanish authority, in 1896, and organizer…
"No reader of the 'Thousand and One Nights' can have forgotten Haroun Al Rascid, the caliiph of Bagdad,…
An illustration of Prince Charles Albert of Carignano, born in Turin on 1798. Prince Albert succeeded…
"Besides Sappho, her friend, perhaps lover, Alcaeus is almost the sole representative of the Aeolic…
"The first noted public appearance of [Alcibiades] was on the occasion of the coming of the Lacedaemonian…
A prominent Athenian statesman and member of the aristocratic family of the Alcmaeonidae.