Defining War Images

Revolutionary War

Trumbull

Death of Gen. Warren in 1775 by John Trumbull (painted c. 1815)

Mexican War

Buena Vista

Battle of Buena Vista, print by H.R. Robinson (1847)

Civil War

Antietam

Confederate Dead at Antietam (1862) by Alexander Gardner

Humiston

Pvt. Amos Humiston’s Children (CDV, 1863)

World War I

Minor

Perfect Soldier cartoon, by Robert Minor (1916)

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam recruiting poster, by James Montgomery Flagg, 1917

World War II

Iwo

Marine flag-raising on Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, 1945

Vietnam War

Napalm

Girl (Phan Kim Phuc) Running from Napalm attack, by Nick Ut, 1972

War on Terror

Abu Ghraib

Pvt. Lyndie England with Iraqi prisoner at Abu Ghraib, 2003