Political cartoon attacking the Republican Party and President Lincoln as supporters of miscegenation, 22nd September 1864.
Thomas Nast . German-born American political cartoonist, illustrator for 'Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper' 1855 - 1859, 'Harper's Weekly' 1862 -...
American politician and lawyer Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen , helped found Republican party in NJ; attorney general of New Jersey, 1861-66, US...
Pasquale Paoli . Corsican patriot, led a revolt against the Genoese chosen president under a republican constitution, defeated and fled to England...
Oliver Perry Morton . American politician, born in Salisbury, Indiana, founder of the Indiana Republican party lieutenant governor of Indiana 1860,...
American politician Charles Sumner . As a member of the US Senate, he was a leading opponent of slavery in Congress. Sumner was physically attack by...
William Henry Seward . American politician. Governor of New York 1839-43, leader of antislavery wing of the Whig party, Whig member, US Senate...
William Henry Seward . American politician. Governor of New York 1839-43, leader of antislavery wing of the Whig party, Whig member, US Senate...
William Henry Seward . American politician. Governor of New York 1839-43, leader of antislavery wing of the Whig party, Whig member, US Senate...
James Monroe , the 5th president of the United States and co-founder of the Jeffersonian Republican Party or Democratic-Republican Party. He is best...
Propaganda for the Free Soil Party, nominating Martin Van Buren for president and Charles Francis Adams for Vice President. The party's slogan 'Free...
Henry Jarvis Raymond . American journalist and politician. Worked at Horace Greeley's 'New Yorker' 1840, at 'New York Tribune' 1841-48, at 'Harper's...
Portrait of American politician William Pitt Fessenden , of New Hampshire. Member of US House of Representatives, 1841-69, a founder of the...
Louis Emory McComas . American lawyer, jurist and politician, member, U.S. Congress from Maryland for the Republican party.
Rutherford B Hayes , the nineteenth President of the United States at a clambake in Rhode Island organised by the Grand Army of the Republic, an...
The candidates for the American presidential elections of 1856 take part in an imaginary sweepstake, in a piece of pro-Fillmore propaganda. American...
An election poster for the Republican Party presidential candidate in the elction of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and his running mate, Hannibal Hamlin ....
American explorer John C Fremont planting the American flag on the Rocky Mountains. In 1856 Fremont was the first Presidential nominee of the newly...
Political poster advocating the candidacy of Horace Greeley and Benjamin Gratz Brown for President and Vice - President as candidates of the...
Emile Ollivier', c1890. Olivier Emile Ollivier was a French statesman. Starting as an avid republican opposed to Emperor Napoleon III, he pushed the...
Barricade erected in the Rue St Martin, Paris, during fighting beteen moderate and radical Republicans during the first few months of the Second...
Irish nationalist, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Head Centre of the Fenians James Stephens . L'Illustration pub. 1867
Thomas Jefferson , 3rd President of the United States of America (1801 - 1809, founder of the Democratic Republican Party. He was largely responsible...
Group of Girondists arriving at the guillotine in Paris in a wagon, surrounded by a mob. Original Artwork: By Piloty
Sir I. Harrington', , 1830. James Harrington English political theorist of classical republicanism educated at Trinity College, Oxford known for his...
Political cartoon showing the Union General and Republican President, Ulysses S Grant tanning the hides of Confederate Generals and about to deliver...
Emilio Castelar, a superb speaker born in Cadiz in 1832, illustrated liberal views in his speeches and writings. However, when he became President of...
Assassination of President Lincoln, Washington DC, 1865 . On Good Friday, 14th April 1865, while at Ford's Theatre, Washington, Abraham Lincoln was...
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland, . The third son of Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell succeeded his father as Lord...
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland, . The third son of Oliver Cromwell, Richard Cromwell succeeded his father as Lord...
Ulysses S Grant, American general and 18th President of the United States, 1862-1867. Ulysses Simpson Grant commanded the Union army in the American...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar, writer and statesman of the 1st century BC. Cicero is remembered as the greatest of Roman orators. He upheld...
Michael Davitt in the committee room of the Land League, Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, 1891. Davitt was an Irish republican, a social campaigner, a...
Stephen A Douglas, American politician, 1862-1867. Douglas was a leading figure in Congress in the 1850s and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that...
Pascal Paoli, 18th century Corsican general and patriot, . Paoli became the leader of the Republic of Corsica when it declared itself independent in...
Pascal Paoli, 18th century Corsican general and patriot. Paoli became the leader of the Republic of Corsica when it declared itself independent in...
Playing cards of the French Republic, 1790 . Playing cards with allegories in place of the more traditional kings, queens and knaves. A print from La...
Guiseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, 19th century. Leading his 1,000 Red Shirts, Garibaldi conquered Sicily and Naples.
Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, 1862-1867. Welles oversaw a buildup in the strength of the Union Navy which enabled it to...
Ulysses S Grant, 19th century American soldier and statesman, . Ulysses Simpson Grant commanded the Union army in the American Civil War from March...
Oliver Cromwell, English military leader and politician, . Portrait of Cromwell , the 'Lord Protector'.
Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, . After his father's death, Cromwell was Lord Protector of England for nine months between 1658 and...
Ulysses S Grant, American general and 18th President of the United States, . Ulysses Simpson Grant commanded the Union army in the American Civil War...
Oliver Cromwell, English military leader and politician, 19th century. Portrait of Cromwell , the 'Lord Protector'.
Oliver Cromwell, English military leader and politician, 1706. Portrait of Cromwell , the 'Lord Protector'.
Robert Blake, English admiral, . Blake , as commander of the navy of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, became one of the most renowned seamen in...
Common Sorrow', 1881. Britannia comforts America after the death of the President on the 19th September 1881. James A Garfield was shot and severely...
'Another Empty Weapon', 1872. The notorious Republican, Sir Charles Dilke, is apprehended by a tall and manly Policeman Gladstone. Recently, Sir...
'Bottom's Dream', 1872. Nick Bottom, representative of the British labourer, is being relieved of the ass's head by Mr Punch in a scene from A...
French Lesson', 1871. Britannia remarks Is That the sort of thing you want, you Little Idiot? Britannia has grabbed a man promoting British...
'The Real Cap of Liberty', 1871. The British lion asks the ass What can that Cap Promise, that My Crown doesn't Perform? Eh, Stoopid? The majestic...
Decided Preference', 1877. France is shown wearing the outfit of the Republic and deciding that she looks her best in it. This relates to the...
Abraham Lincoln , c1865. Lincoln, a Republican, became 16th President of the USA in 1860. On Good Friday, 14 April 1865, while at Ford's Theatre,...
Ulysses S Grant, American soldier and statesman, late 19th century. Ulysses Simpson Grant commanded the Union army in the American Civil War from...
Funeral of Francois Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician, Paris, 5 October 1853. Dominique Francois Jean Arago made important...
Dominique Francois Jean Arago , French astronomer, physicist and politician, 1886. Arago made important discoveries in the fields of astronomy,...
Left wing Republican French journalist and politician Victor Henri, Marquis de Rochefort-Lucay in a 'wild man' pose. Vanity Fair - No 64 - Men of the...
Royalist engraving lampooning the efforts of republican Jacobins to erect a statue to 'La Nation'. A royal sun, decorated with the fleur-de-lis, is...