Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History

September 11 memorial, by Diliff

Bison skull pile at American Bison, from Detroit Public Library

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (1869) at First Transcontinental Railroad, by Andrew J. Russell

Tamarack Miners (1905) at Mining, by Adolph S. Isler

Aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake at 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by George R. Lawrence

MRBM Launch Site 2 at Cuban Missile Crisis, from John F. Kennedy Library

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, by Warren K. Leffler

United States Declaration of Independence, printed by William Stone

Fallen statue of Louis Agassiz at 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by Frank Davey (edited by trialsanderrors)

Anti-Iranian demonstrator at Iran hostage crisis, by Marion S. Trikosko

Whipped slave at Slavery in the United States, from the National Archives and Records Administration

Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936 at Great Depression in the United States, from the United States Department of Agriculture

Constitution of the United States

John Wilkes Booth wanted poster, author unknown

Aerial view of the World Trade Center site, by NOAA

USS Niagara (1813), author unknown

1906 San Francisco earthquake fire, by H. D. Chadwick (edited by Durova)

Racist campaign poster (at Disfranchisement after the Civil War and others), author unknown (edited by Durova)

Navajo family (at Navajo rug), by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (edited by Durova)

World Trade Center ruins (at Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11, 2001 attacks) by Preston Keres

Signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by Cecil W. Stoughton

Meetings prior to the Convention of Kanagawa, author unknown (edited by Adam Cuerden)

Trinity nuclear test, by Berlyn Brixner (edited by jjron)

1909 Tulsa panorama (at History of Tulsa), by Clarence Jack (edited by Mfield)

Editorial cartoon of Lincoln and Johnson, by Joseph E. Baker (edited by Durova)

Phoenix, Arizona in 1885, by C.J. Dyer

1912 Dallas skyline (at History of Dallas) Johnson & Rogers (edited by Durova)

1775 map of Boston (at History of Boston), by Thomas Hyde Page (edited by Durova)

Iowa and Nebraska land sale ad (at History of Iowa, History of Nebraska) by Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (edited by Durova)

Battle of Harpers Ferry, by Robert Knox Sneden (edited by Durova)

Seals of the U.S. states, 1876, by A.J. Connell

Duck and Cover video (1951), by Raymond J. Mauer and Anthony Rizzo

The Assassination of President Lincoln, by Currier & Ives (edited by Adam Cuerden)

Gerald Ford re: pardon of Richard Nixon, by Thomas J. O'Halloran (edited by Durova)

Cleanup after the 1900 Galveston hurricane, by Edison Manufacturing Co.

Racial segregation (at Separate but equal), by John Vachon (edited by Durova)

Migrant family in California's agricultural region (at American Agricultural Economy in the 1920s-1940), by Dorothea Lange (edited by Durova)

George Wallace attempting to block integration, by Warren K. Leffler (edited by Calliopejen1)

Battle of Yorktown, by James F. Gibson (edited by Durova)

American Empire, by Samuel D. Ehrhart (edited by Durova)

Resignation letter, by Richard Nixon

Construction of Mount Rushmore, by Rise Studio, Rapid City (edited by Durova)

Pulaski, New York in 1885, by Lucien R. Burleigh (edited by Durova)

Racial segregation in Mississippi, by Marion Post Wolcott (edited by Durova)

Aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, by Trager & Kuhn, Chadron, Nebr. (edited by Durova)

First Battle of Bull Run map, author unknown (edited by Durova)

Military College of Chapultepec (at Battle of Chapultepec), by Nathaniel Currier (edited by Durova)

Battle of Ticonderoga (1759), by W.B. Delt (edited by Durova)

President William McKinley's last speech, by Charles Dudley Arnold (edited by Durova)

Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat shortly after the Camp David Accords (edited by Durova)

Glassworkers' baseball team, by Lewis Hine (edited by Durova)

United States presidential election, 1864 (Democrats), by Currier and Ives (edited by Durova)

United States presidential election, 1864 (Republican), by Currier and Ives (edited by Durova)

Child labour in the United States (at National Child Labor Committee), by Lewis Hine (edited by Mvuijlst)

Robert McGee, scalped as a child, by E.E. Henry (edited by Mvuijlst)

Easter Monday at the White House, by Harris and Ewing (edited by Durova)

Joan of Arc "Buy war savings stamps poster, by Coffin and Haskell (edited by Durova)

Richmond in the American Civil War, by Andrew J. Russell (edited by Durova)

Salem witch trials, by Joseph E. Baker (edited by Durova)

Hosiery advertisement, by Cooper, Wells & Co. (edited by Durova)