Milestone Visual Documents in American History expands our coverage of essential primary sources in American history by focusing on visual images from early America to the present day: photographs, paintings, cartoons, and more. Like the other titles in our Milestone Documents series, this set pairs each visual source with in-depth scholarly analysis and commentary to help students and researchers better understand the image and place it in its historical context. Each entry includes associated commentary providing detailed information about the image, the artist, and the times in which it was produced. Featuring 125 images ranging from the 1600s to the present day, Milestone Visual Documents in American History is an essential reference for high school, college, and public libraries.

• Smallpox Epidemic among the Aztec Illustration (ca. 1590)
• Nova totius Map of the World (1606)
• Recruting to the Colonies Nova Britannia Flyer (1609)
• Village of Secotan Illustration (1619)
• Brockett's Map of New Haven (1641)
• The Castello Plan: New Amsterdam Map (1660)
• John Foster’s Gravestone (1681)
• Cherokee Delegation to England Portrait (1730)
• A View of Savannah Map (1734)
• Isaac Royall and Family Portrait (1741)
• Depiction of Colonial Cloth Makers Illustration (ca. 1700s)
• Dockside at Virginia Tobacco Warehouse Illustration (1751)
• Benjamin Frankin: Join, or Die Illustration (1754)
• Slaves for Sale Advertisement (1760)
• William Bradford: “Expiring: In Hopes of a Resurrection to Life Again" Newspaper Protest (1765)
• Paul Revere: The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770, by a party of the 29th Reg Flyer (1770)
• "The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering” Satirical Print (1774)
• Edenton Tea Party Satirical Print (1775)
• The Old Plantation Painting (1785)
• "The Times, a Political Portrait” Political Cartoon (1795)
• Small Farm Site Clearing Painting (1800)
• “The Gerry-mander” Cartoon (1812)
• The Plantation Painting (1825)
• “The Iron Horse Wins—1830” Illustration (1829)
• “Camp-Meeting” Painting (1830)
• “King Andrew the First” Cartoon (1833)
• Erie Canal, Lockport, New York, Illustration (1839)
• Thomas Jefferson: Advertisement for a Runaway Slave (1841)
• "President’s Levee, or All Creation Going to the White House”  Illustration (1841)
• Lowell Offering Masthead (1845)
• Nathaniel Currier: “The Drunkard’s Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave” Cartoon (1846)
• Richard Doyle: “The Land of Liberty” Cartoon (1847)
• Nathaniel Currier “The Way They Go to California” Cartoon (1849)
• “Irish Whiskey and Lager Bier” Cartoon (1850)
• “Classroom in the Emerson School for Girls” Photograph (1850)
• McCormick’s Patent Virginia Reaper Flyer (1850)
• Currier & Ives: “Congressional Scales: A True Balance” Cartoon (1850)
• George Caleb Bingham: The County Election Painting (1852)
• “Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler” Cartoon (1856)
• Picking Cotton, Georgia, 1858 Illustration (1858)
• “Denouncing Ye Lords of Creation”: Mockery of Women’s Rights Conventions Cartoon (1859)
• Progressive Democracy—Prospect of a Smash Up Cartoon (1860)
• Powder Monkey by Gun of USS New Hampshire off the Coast of Charleston, South Carolina, Photograph (1864)
• Andrew J. Russell: The Ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1865 Photograph (1865)
• Guard House and Guard, 107th U.S. Colored Infantry, Fort Corcoran Photograph (1865)
• Alfred Rudolph Waud: "The First Vote" Illustration (1867)
• Selling a Freedman to Pay His Fine, at Monticello, Florida, Engraving (1867)
• “Reconstruction” Cartoon (1867)
• Thomas Nast: “This Is a White Man’s Government” Cartoon (1868)
• Thomas Nast: “The American River Ganges: The Priests and the Children” Cartoon (1871)
• John Gast: American Progress Painting (1873)
• Washington Street, Nicodemus, Kansas, Photograph (ca. 1877)
• “The Modern Colossus of (Rail) Roads” Cartoon (1879)
• Jacob Riis: “Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement: ‘Five Cents a Spot’” Photograph (1880)
• “Attention Workingmen!” Haymarket Mass Meeting Flyer (1886)
• Carlisle School Students Photograph (ca. 1880s)
• Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Flyer (1899)
• Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins” Cartoon (1899)
• Freed Slaves at County Almshouse Photograph (1900)
• “The Administration’s Promises Have Been Kept” Republican Campaign Poster (1900)
• Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pa., Photograph (1908)
• Louis Wickes Hines: Boys Working in Arcade Bowling Alley Photograph (1909)
• Traffic on Dearborn and Randolph, 1909, Photograph (1909)
• Garment Workers Strike Photograph (1910)
• In Dreamland at Night, Coney Island, N.Y.” Photograph (1910)
• "Indian Land for Sale" Poster (1911)
• Health Inspection of New Immigrants, Ellis Island Photograph (1914)
• Billboard Campaign of the Woman’s Party Photograph (1916)
• “Gee! I Wish I Were a Man”: Navy Recruiting Poster (1917)
• 369th Infantry Regiment (15th New York National Guard) Photograph (ca. 1917-19)
• Raid on IWW Headquarters (1919)
• “The Only Way to Handle It” Cartoon (1921)
• Assembly Line Photograph (1923)
• Judge Magazine Cover: The Roaring Twenties (1925)
• Edward Hopper: Automat Painting (1927)
• Fazil Movie Poster (1928)
• Bread Line, New York City, 1930, Photograph (1930)
• John T. McCutcheon: “A Wise Economist Asks a Question” Cartoon (1932)
• NAACP: “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” Photograph (1936)
• Cab Calloway and Dancing Couples Photograph (1937)
• Jacob Lawrence: The Great Migration Painting (1940)
• Civilian Conservation Corps Poster (1941)
• Kultur-terror” Pro-German, Anti-American Propaganda Poster (ca. 1941-45)
• “We Can Do It!” Rosie the Riveter Poster (1942)
• U.S. Army Air Force: “B-17F Formation over Schweinfurt, Germany, August 17, 1943” Photograph (1943)
• Ansel Adams: “Manzanar Relocation Center from Tower” Photograph (1943)
• Navajo Code Talkers Photograph (1943)
• Alfred T. Palmer: “Detroit Arsenal Tank Manufacture (Chrysler)” Photograph (1944)
• Rube Goldberg: "Peace Today" Cartoon (1948)
• Joseph McCarthy Photograph (1954)
• 101st Airborne Division outside Little Rock Central High School Photograph (1957)
• Thomas J. O’Halloran: Nixon's Kitchen Debate Photograph (1959)
• Levittown, Pennsylvania, Photograph (ca. 1959)
• Interstate 10 Under Construction at SR 11 in California Photograph (ca. 1960)
• Sit-in at Lunch Counter (Jackson, Mississippi) Photograph (1963)
• Drive-in Restaurant Photograph (1964)
• Herbert Block: “I got one of ’em just as she almost made it back to the church” Cartoon (1965)
• United Farm Workers Strike Photograph (1965)
• Black Panther Party Demonstration Photograph (1967)
• American Indians Occupy Alcatraz Photograph (1969)
• Vietnam War Destruction Photograph (1971)
• Herbert Block: “National Security Blanket” Cartoon (1973)
• Gasoline Rationing Photograph (1973)
• “Remember Wounded Knee” Patch (1973)
• Anti-Busing Rally in South Boston Photograph (1975)
• Warren K. Leffler: Phyllis Schlafly at White House Demonstration Photograph (1977)
• Pat Oliphant: “There He Goes Again” Cartoon (1984)
• Herbert Block: “Strange How Some Choose to Live Like That Instead of Choosing to Be Rich Like Us” (1984)
• “Silence = Death” Flyer (1987)
• Berlin Wall Teardown, Germany 1989, Photograph (1989)
• “Wheels of Justice” March Photograph (1990)
• Anita Hill’s Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Photograph (1991)
• Steve Greenberg: “Bill Clinton’s Foreign Policy Vehicle” Cartoon (1994)
• Oklahoma City Bombing Photograph (1995)
• Steve Greenberg: “Betsy Ross Gingrich: Contract with America” Cartoon (1995)
• Bush v. Gore Photograph (2000)
• Northeast Face of South Tower after Plane Strike, September 11, 2001, Photograph (2001)
• George W. Bush “Mission Accomplished” Photograph (2003)
• “We the People Are Greater Than Fear” Flyer (2017)
• Breaching the Capitol, January 6, 2021, Photograph (2021)
• Robert E. Lee Statue Removal Photograph (2021)