The pamphlet Common Sense, written by Tom Paine
Revolutionary essay writer Tom Paine
The Liberator’s illustrated nameplate
Abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison
Women’s rights leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as depicted in Life magazine
Political cartoonist Thomas Nast
“Boss” Tweed, as drawn by Thomas Nast
Tammany Hall as a tiger (cartoon)
The cartoon that led to Tweed’s arrest
Yellow Kid, a symbol of sensationalistic journalism
Frederic Remington’s drawing of a strip search in Cuba
Hearst’s New York Journal announces the sinking of the USS Maine
Ida Minerva Tarbell, the Terror of the Trusts
A drawing from Collier’s symbolizes patent medicine fraud
Religious and racial bigotry as drawn by J. P. Alley
A Commercial Appeal cartoon captures the absurdity of the Ku Klux Klan
If Klansmen were elected to city positions (cartoon)
Father Charles Coughlin, radio priest
The iconic Rosie the Riveter poster
Another woman raised to heroic status by Margaret Bourke-White’s camera
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his assistant, Roy Cohn
Edward R. Murrow, the most revered TV newsman in history
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the “Little Rock Nine”
A Birmingham police officer’s cruelty during the Civil Rights Movement
The reality of Vietnam, shown in the eyes of a young private
The assassination of a Viet Cong officer made headlines and TV
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, exposers of Watergate
President Richard Nixon resigns from office
The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001
Ground Zero after the terrorist attack
Candidate Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign
The Obama family’s first public appearance after the election
John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, plaintiffs in the historic lawsuit