IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is one of three prototypes ...

In the hands of men like Boone, Kenton, and Wetzel, the flintlock rifle helped shape North America as we know it today. Flintlock rifles won our War of Independence and went west with Lewis and Clark.

During the War of 1812, a small group of teenagers successfully helped hold off 10,000 British soldiers at a critical battle in upstate New York. To acknowledge their gallantry, for the first and only ...