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Image Attributions

This page records source, licence, credit, and transformation notes for historical photographs, licensed archival images, public-domain material, and AI-assisted reconstructions used on Stories of History.

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andy burnham

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/andy_burnham.webp
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Credit
House of Commons

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Parliament portrait

boris johnson

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/boris_johnson.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
Ben Shread / Cabinet Office

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Government portrait

Boris Yeltsin

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/boris_yeltsin.webp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Presidential Press and Information Office

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

charles iii

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/charles_iii.webp
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Credit
Roger Harris

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official enthroned portrait crop

Chiang Kai-shek

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/chiang_kai_shek.webp
Licence
Attribution
Credit
Unknown photographer

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Clement Attlee

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/clement_attlee.webp
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Credit
Chris McAndrew

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

david cameron

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/david_cameron.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Government portrait

Deng Xiaoping

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/deng_xiaoping.webp
Credit
Sumin Chou (On behalf of US-China Arts Exchange)

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

dmitry medvedev

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/dmitry_medvedev.webp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Government.ru

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official Russian government portrait

edward snowden

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/edward_snowden.webp
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Credit
Laura Poitras / Praxis Films

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

licensed editorial portrait

F. W. de Klerk

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/f_w_de_klerk.webp
Credit
Walter Rutishauser, Photographer

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Fulgencio Batista

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/fulgencio_batista.webp
Credit
Unknown author Unknown author

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

gordon brown

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/gordon_brown.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
HM Treasury

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Government portrait

James Callaghan

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/james_callaghan.webp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Christian Lambiotte

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Jiang Zemin

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/jiang_zemin.webp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
The Presidential Press and Information Office

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Kim Il-sung

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/kim_il_sung.webp
Credit
Nicor

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Leonid Brezhnev

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/leonid_brezhnev.webp
Licence
FAL
Credit
Vladimir Musaelyan

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

liz truss

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/liz_truss.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Government portrait

Margaret Thatcher

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/margaret_thatcher.webp
Licence
Copyrighted free use
Credit
derivative work by Begoon

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Nelson Mandela

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/nelson_mandela.webp
Credit
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel

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Osama bin Laden

Figure portraits
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/images/figures/osama_bin_laden.webp
Credit
Hamid Mir

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Ratko Mladic

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/ratko_mladic.webp
Credit
Фото: Михаил Евстафьев / Photo by Evstafiev Mikhail

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rishi sunak

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/rishi_sunak.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street

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official UK Government portrait

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/sir_alec_douglas_home.webp
Credit
Allan warren

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Sir Edward Heath

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/sir_edward_heath.webp
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Credit
See source page

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sir john major

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/sir_john_major.webp
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Credit
Chatham House

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licensed editorial portrait

sir keir starmer

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/sir_keir_starmer.webp
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Credit
Chris McAndrew

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official UK Parliament portrait

sir tony blair

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/sir_tony_blair.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
UK Government

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Government portrait

Slobodan Milosevic

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/slobodan_milosevic.webp
Credit
Stevan Kragujević

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

theresa may

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/theresa_may.webp
Licence
OGL 3
Credit
Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official UK Government portrait

vladimir putin

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/vladimir_putin.webp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Kremlin.ru

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official Kremlin portrait

xi jinping

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/xi_jinping.webp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Kremlin.ru

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Kremlin photograph

Extra Care Notes

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Ratko Mladic

CC BY-SA 3.0. Credit: Фото: Михаил Евстафьев / Photo by Evstafiev Mikhail.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.
  • Atrocity/war-crimes linked subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional framing.

Jiang Zemin

CC BY 4.0. Credit: The Presidential Press and Information Office.

  • Creative Commons BY image: preserve attribution/license notice for the transformed crop.

F. W. de Klerk

CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit: Walter Rutishauser, Photographer.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.

Fidel Castro

Public domain. Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.03256 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing ..

  • Authoritarian/revolutionary political subject; keep use strictly editorial and avoid implied endorsement.

Margaret Thatcher

Copyrighted free use. Credit: derivative work by Begoon.

  • Copyrighted free-use Commons label: verify exact reuse terms before publishing widely.

Nelson Mandela

CC BY-SA 2.0. Credit: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.

Kim Jong Il

CC0. Credit: Jesse Charlie.

  • Authoritarian political subject; keep use strictly editorial and avoid implied endorsement.

Osama bin Laden

CC BY-SA 3.0. Credit: Hamid Mir.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.
  • Terrorism-linked subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional or decorative use.

Boris Yeltsin

CC BY 4.0. Credit: Presidential Press and Information Office.

  • Creative Commons BY image: preserve attribution/license notice for the transformed crop.

P. W. Botha

Public domain. Credit: Wie is wie in Suid-Afrika 1963.

  • Apartheid-era political subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional framing.

Saddam Hussein

Public domain. Credit: Iraqi News Agency.

  • Authoritarian/war-crimes linked subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid implied endorsement.

Slobodan Milosevic

CC BY-SA 3.0. Credit: Stevan Kragujević.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.
  • War-crimes linked subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional framing.

James Callaghan

CC BY 4.0. Credit: Christian Lambiotte.

  • Creative Commons BY image: preserve attribution/license notice for the transformed crop.

Sir Edward Heath

CC BY-SA 3.0. Credit: See source page.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.

Franjo Tudman

Public domain. Credit: A1C Carson Harrison..

  • Balkan wars political subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional framing.

Deng Xiaoping

CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit: Sumin Chou (On behalf of US-China Arts Exchange).

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

CC BY-SA 3.0. Credit: Allan warren.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.

Kim Il-sung

CC BY-SA 3.0. Credit: Nicor.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.
  • Authoritarian political subject; keep use strictly editorial and avoid implied endorsement.

Leonid Brezhnev

FAL. Credit: Vladimir Musaelyan.

  • Free Art License image: nonstandard open license; verify attribution and downstream reuse terms.

Mao Zedong

Public domain. Credit: Chen Zhengqing (1917–1966).

  • Authoritarian political subject; keep use strictly editorial and avoid implied endorsement.

Chiang Kai-shek

Attribution. Credit: Unknown photographer.

  • Attribution-only Commons label: verify exact reuse terms and keep attribution with the image.
  • Contested authoritarian-era political subject; keep use strictly editorial and avoid implied endorsement.

Fulgencio Batista

CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit: Unknown author Unknown author.

  • Creative Commons BY-SA image: preserve attribution and share-alike obligations for the transformed crop.
  • Authoritarian political subject; keep use strictly editorial and avoid implied endorsement.

Che Guevara

Public domain. Credit: See source page.

  • Revolutionary political subject often used iconographically; keep use strictly educational and avoid endorsement-like styling.

Clement Attlee

CC BY 3.0. Credit: Chris McAndrew.

  • Creative Commons BY image: preserve attribution/license notice for the transformed crop.

Adolf Eichmann

Public domain. Credit: Author and location unknown. Bettina Stangneth's caption for the image says: "Unknown photographer, undated (1941), AKG Images, 4217270". [ 3 ] The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) website used to attribute the image to Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) ("image: hoff-895; negative: Hoffmann 8841"), a German photographer who was known as Hitler's personal photographer. The library obtained the negative and a copy of the image as part of a collection purchased from Hoffmann's son in 1993. Following an inquiry from a Wikipedian in 2014, the library checked the negative and confirmed "with certainty" that this is not one of Hoffmann's images. His negatives were made of glass and had identifying numbers etched onto them. The library said they cannot determine the authorship of the Eichmann negative..

  • Holocaust perpetrator; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional or decorative use.

D. F. Malan

Public domain. Credit: See source page.

  • Apartheid-era political subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid promotional framing.

Joseph Stalin

Public domain. Credit: Ivan Shagin.

  • Authoritarian/atrocity-linked subject; keep use strictly educational and avoid implied endorsement.

Public Domain and CC0

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Adolf Eichmann

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/adolf_eichmann.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Author and location unknown. Bettina Stangneth's caption for the image says: "Unknown photographer, undated (1941), AKG Images, 4217270". [ 3 ] The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) website used to attribute the image to Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) ("image: hoff-895; negative: Hoffmann 8841"), a German photographer who was known as Hitler's personal photographer. The library obtained the negative and a copy of the image as part of a collection purchased from Hoffmann's son in 1993. Following an inquiry from a Wikipedian in 2014, the library checked the negative and confirmed "with certainty" that this is not one of Hoffmann's images. His negatives were made of glass and had identifying numbers etched onto them. The library said they cannot determine the authorship of the Eichmann negative.

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Anatoly Dobrynin

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/anatoly_dobrynin.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

bill clinton

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/bill_clinton.webp
Credit
U.S. Government

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

official presidential portrait

Charles de Gaulle

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/charles_de_gaulle.webp
Licence
CC0
Credit
Anonyme, photographe

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Che Guevara

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/che_guevara.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
See source page

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

D. F. Malan

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/d_f_malan.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
See source page

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Dean Rusk

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/dean_rusk.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
U.S. Department of State

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Dong Biwu

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/dong_biwu.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
See source page

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Douglas MacArthur

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/douglas_macarthur.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
LT. RALPH ESTEP

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/dwight_d_eisenhower.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
White House

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Edward VIII

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/edward_viii.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Press Illustration Service

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Elizabeth II

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/elizabeth_ii.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Donald McKague

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Emperor Hirohito

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/emperor_hirohito.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
宮内省(Ministry of the Imperial Household)

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Fidel Castro

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/fidel_castro.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.03256 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Franjo Tudman

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/franjo_tudman.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
A1C Carson Harrison.

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Franz von Papen

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/franz_von_papen.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Robert Sennecke

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George F. Kennan

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/george_f_kennan.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Harris & Ewing, photographer

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George H. W. Bush

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/george_h_w_bush.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Unknown author Unknown author

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George VI

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/george_vi.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
John St Helier Lander

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

george w bush

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/george_w_bush.webp
Credit
Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994

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official U.S. government portrait

Gerald Ford

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/gerald_ford.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
David Hume Kennerly

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Haile Selassie

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/haile_selassie.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Unknown photographer

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Harold Macmillan

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/harold_macmillan.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Cecil W. Stoughton

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Harold Wilson

Figure portraits
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/images/figures/harold_wilson.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library

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Harry S Truman

Figure portraits
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/images/figures/harry_s_truman.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Edmonston Studio

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Henry Kissinger

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/henry_kissinger.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Bernard Gotfryd

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Ho Chi Minh

Figure portraits
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/images/figures/ho_chi_minh.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Unknown author Unknown author

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hu jintao

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/hu_jintao.webp
Credit
White House

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U.S. federal government photograph

Hugh Dowding

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/hugh_dowding.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Ministry of Information official photographer

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/j_robert_oppenheimer.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Ed Westcott (U.S. Government photographer)

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Jimmy Carter

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/jimmy_carter.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
The White House

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John F Kennedy

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/john_f_kennedy.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Cecil W. Stoughton

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Joseph Stalin

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/joseph_stalin.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Ivan Shagin

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Josip Broz Tito

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/images/figures/josip_broz_tito.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Unknown author Unknown author

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Kim Jong Il

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/kim_jong_il.webp
Licence
CC0
Credit
Jesse Charlie

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kim jong un

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/kim_jong_un.webp
Credit
White House

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U.S. federal government photograph

Konstantin Chernenko

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/konstantin_chernenko.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Filatov / RIA Novosti / distributed by Associated Press

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Li Xiannian

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/li_xiannian.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
NARA

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Liu Shaoqi

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/liu_shaoqi.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Unknown, Chinese government

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Lyndon B Johnson

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/lyndon_b_johnson.webp
Licence
Public domain
Credit
Arnold Newman

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Mao Zedong

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/images/figures/mao_zedong.webp
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Public domain
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Chen Zhengqing (1917–1966)

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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/images/figures/mikhail_gorbachev.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Series: Reagan White House Photographs, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 Collection: White House Photographic Collection, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Ngo Dinh Diem

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/images/figures/ngo_dinh_diem.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Presidency of the Republic of Vietnam Press Office

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Nikita Khrushchev

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/images/figures/nikita_khrushchev.webp
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Public domain
Credit
TASS / distributed by Associated Press

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

P. W. Botha

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/images/figures/p_w_botha.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Wie is wie in Suid-Afrika 1963

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Puyi

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/images/figures/puyi.webp
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Public domain
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Unknown

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; flattened on a neutral background where needed; exported as WebP with PNG fallback. Reprocessed with a light background flatten so the transparent source does not render as a dark silhouette.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Richard Nixon

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/images/figures/richard_nixon.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Office of the Vice President

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Robert Kennedy

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/images/figures/robert_kennedy.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Unknown; dedicated to the Bettman Archive. Likely an organization working with the Senate, e.g. Congressional Quarterly, or the Senate itself.

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Robert McNamara

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/images/figures/robert_mcnamara.webp
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Public domain
Credit
DoD photo by Oscar Porter, U.S. Army.

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Ronald Reagan

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/images/figures/ronald_reagan.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Michael Evans

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Saddam Hussein

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/images/figures/saddam_hussein.webp
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Public domain
Credit
Iraqi News Agency

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Sir Anthony Eden

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/images/figures/sir_anthony_eden.webp
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Public domain
Credit
United States Army Signal Corps

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; flattened on a neutral background where needed; exported as WebP with PNG fallback. Manual visual replacement for a clearer public-domain portrait crop.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Sir Winston Churchill

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/images/figures/sir_winston_churchill.webp
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Public domain
Credit
British Government

Cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; flattened on a neutral background where needed; exported as WebP with PNG fallback. Manual visual replacement for a clearer public-domain portrait crop.

Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Syngman Rhee

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/images/figures/syngman_rhee.webp
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Public domain
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대한민국 국가기록원

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Yang Shangkun

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/images/figures/yang_shangkun.webp
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Public domain
Credit
unknown author

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Yuri Andropov

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/images/figures/yuri_andropov.webp
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Public domain
Credit
TASS

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

Yuri Gagarin

Figure portraits
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/images/figures/yuri_gagarin.webp
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Public domain
Credit
See source page

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Editorial/biographical history use. Do not use in a way that implies endorsement.

AI-Assisted Reconstructions

These images were generated for educational illustration without using an external source image.

abraham lincoln

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/abraham_lincoln.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

andrew jackson

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/andrew_jackson.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Andrew Jackson (1767-1845); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

andrew johnson

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/andrew_johnson.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Andrew Johnson (1808-1875); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

Anne Frank

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/anne_frank.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1024x1536 PNG and WebP with center crop from generated source.

Original educational non-likeness contextual reconstruction of a 1940s Amsterdam annex scene for Anne Frank; generated from text only, not based on a source image, not a documentary photograph, and not intended to reproduce Anne Frank’s actual face or imply endorsement.

Replaces an unregistered photo-style portrait with a non-likeness contextual scene to reduce copyright, attribution, and likeness-reproduction risk.

benjamin harrison

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/benjamin_harrison.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

calvin coolidge

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/calvin_coolidge.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

chester a arthur

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/chester_a_arthur.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

franklin d roosevelt

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/franklin_d_roosevelt.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

franklin pierce

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/franklin_pierce.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Franklin Pierce (1804-1869); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

george washington

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/george_washington.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure George Washington (1732-1799); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

grover cleveland

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/grover_cleveland.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Grover Cleveland (1837-1908); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

herbert hoover

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/herbert_hoover.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Herbert Hoover (1874-1964); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

james a garfield

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/james_a_garfield.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure James A. Garfield (1831-1881); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

james buchanan

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/james_buchanan.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure James Buchanan (1791-1868); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

james k polk

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/james_k_polk.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure James K. Polk (1795-1849); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

james madison

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/james_madison.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure James Madison (1751-1836); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

james monroe

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/james_monroe.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure James Monroe (1758-1831); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

john adams

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/john_adams.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure John Adams (1735-1826); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

john quincy adams

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/john_quincy_adams.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

john tyler

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/john_tyler.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure John Tyler (1790-1862); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

martin van buren

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/martin_van_buren.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Martin Van Buren (1782-1862); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

millard fillmore

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/millard_fillmore.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Millard Fillmore (1800-1874); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

rutherford b hayes

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/rutherford_b_hayes.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

theodore roosevelt

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/theodore_roosevelt.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

thomas jefferson

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/thomas_jefferson.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

ulysses s grant

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/ulysses_s_grant.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

warren g harding

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/warren_g_harding.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Warren G. Harding (1865-1923); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

william henry harrison

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/william_henry_harrison.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

william howard taft

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/william_howard_taft.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure William Howard Taft (1857-1930); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

william mckinley

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/william_mckinley.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure William McKinley (1843-1901); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

woodrow wilson

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/woodrow_wilson.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

zachary taylor

Figure portraits
Image
/images/figures/zachary_taylor.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Generated from text only; cropped and resized to 1024x1536 portrait; exported as WebP with PNG fallback.

Original educational historical portrait reconstruction of deceased public figure Zachary Taylor (1784-1850); not based on a source image and not intended to imply endorsement.

a new world order

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_second_world_war/a_new_world_order.webp
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OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced leader-centered postwar settlement imagery with a non-identifying institutional planning scene.

apartheid becomes law

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/apartheid_south_africa/apartheid_becomes_law.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Regenerated without flags, portraits, or national emblems; replaced potentially identifiable apartheid lawmaker imagery with a non-identifying bureaucracy scene.

apartheid comes to power

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/apartheid_south_africa/apartheid_comes_to_power.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Regenerated without flags or national emblems; replaced direct apartheid-leader imagery with a non-identifying election aftermath scene.

appeasement at munich

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_causes_of_the_second_world_war/appeasement_at_munich.webp
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OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced recognizable Munich leaders with non-identifying diplomatic scene.

bosnia and the end of yugoslavia

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_rise_and_fall_of_yugoslavia/bosnia_and_the_end_of_yugoslavia.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Regenerated as an exterior Dayton peace-process scene that avoids recognizable commanders, political-leader likenesses, graphic wartime harm, maps, and a formal signing-table composition.

break with stalin

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_rise_and_fall_of_yugoslavia/break_with_stalin.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Regenerated as a rail and telegraph depot scene that avoids Tito and Stalin likenesses, leader portraits, maps, and a static diplomatic-table composition.

brezhnev stagnation

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union/brezhnev_stagnation.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced Brezhnev portrait with everyday late-Soviet stagnation scene.

brinkmanship leaves a legacy

Story step images
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/images/steps/the_cuban_missile_crisis/brinkmanship_leaves_a_legacy.webp
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OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced leader-centered aftermath imagery with a non-identifying hotline and communications scene.

britain stands alone

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_battle_of_britain/britain_stands_alone.webp
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OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced Churchill likeness with air-defense command scene.

building one party rule

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/maos_china/building_one_party_rule.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced Mao portrait setting with institutional party-state scene.

china challenges the global order

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_rise_of_china/china_challenges_the_global_order.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced a potentially recognizable modern-leader/global-power scene with a non-identifying infrastructure and trade scene.

democracy is destroyed

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_rise_of_adolf_hitler/democracy_is_destroyed.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced leader-over-Reichstag image with non-identifying institutional collapse scene.

deng xiaoping takes control

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_rise_of_china/deng_xiaoping_takes_control.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced the prior reform-planning room with a more grounded late-1970s policy meeting scene that avoids Deng Xiaoping, Mao portraits, and recognizable public-figure likenesses.

detente and strategic competition

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_cold_war/detente_and_strategic_competition.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced recognizable superpower-leader imagery with an anonymous arms-control negotiation scene.

empire in eastern europe

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_soviets/empire_in_eastern_europe.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Regenerated to avoid inaccurate flags and leader symbolism; Soviet control is shown through a non-identifying railway checkpoint.

excomm debates war

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_cuban_missile_crisis/excomm_debates_war.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
Stories of History

Saved as 1536x1024 PNG and WebP with the existing story-step aspect ratio.

Replaced Kennedy-administration likenesses with an anonymous crisis-room scene.

famine and regime survival

Story step images
Image
/images/steps/the_kim_dynasty/famine_and_regime_survival.webp
Source
OpenAI image generation via Codex image_gen
Licence
No external source image; internally generated illustrative reconstruction
Credit
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fascism takes power in italy

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fighter command prepares

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german rearmament

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gorbachev takes power

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haile selassie reshapes ethiopia

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haile selassie takes the throne

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hitler becomes chancellor

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hitler becomes chancellor

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hitler is made chancellor

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hitler joins the german workers party

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hitler takes power

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hitler turns east

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ho chi minh and revolutionary nationalism

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invasion postponed

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Replaced Churchill likeness with RAF radar and operations scene.

juche becomes state ideology

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Replaced an institutional study-hall image with a non-identifying industry-and-agriculture scene.

kennedy orders a quarantine

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khrushchev sends missiles

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khrushchevs thaw

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kim jong uns nuclear dynasty

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Replaced a parade crowd with a non-identifying remote missile-facility scene that avoids living-leader likenesses.

lenin and the april theses

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mandela sentenced to life

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mandela walks free

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maos long shadow

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Replaced Mao funeral portrait image with non-identifying memorial/state-continuity scene.

militarisation of society

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nationalism returns

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nationalism returns

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ngo dinh diem builds south vietnam

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planning operation overlord

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polarization after endless war

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potsdam and the broken trust

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Replaced Truman-Stalin-Churchill likeness risk with a non-identifying Potsdam conference-room scene.

prison and mein kampf

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propaganda and daily life

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rebuilding the nazi machine

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resistance and liberation

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royal dictatorship

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secession and war

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soviet patronage and state formation

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stagnation and superpower strain

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stalins revolution from above

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surrender and imperial collapse

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the atomic shock

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the august revolution

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the beer hall putsch

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the communist victory

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the countryside opens first

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the crisis nearly breaks

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the cultural revolution

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the death of kim il sung

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the enabling act

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the end of the mao era

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the fall of the ethiopian empire

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Replaced direct Haile Selassie deposition imagery with a non-identifying revolutionary street scene.

the federal balance

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Regenerated as a chamber-floor voting scene that avoids Tito likeness, leader portraits, maps, readable slogans, and a static committee-table composition.

the first nuclear test

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the founding of north korea

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the fuhrer state

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the great depression breaks weimar

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the great leap forward

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the hereditary succession

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the hundred flowers trap

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the inchon landing

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the iron curtain speech

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the kingdom is born

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the league of nations begins

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the liberation of paris

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the missiles are discovered

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Replaced potentially recognizable crisis-leader imagery with a photo-interpretation room scene.

the monolithic leadership system

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Replaced a mass ceremony with a non-identifying residential surveillance and conformity scene.

the nazi party takes shape

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the nazis become a mass party

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Regenerated as an alternative scene with no flags, banners, armbands, salutes, extremist symbols, or Hitler likeness.

the paris peace conference opens

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Replaced Big Four likeness risk with a non-identifying diplomatic-arrival scene.

the revolution changes cuba

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Replaced Castro-centered revolutionary imagery with a non-identifying Havana street scene.

the secret deal

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Replaced Kennedy-Khrushchev back-channel likeness risk with hands and anonymous envoys.

the southern tour

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Replaced Deng likeness with non-identifying Shenzhen development scene.

the tehran bargain

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Replaced Big Three likeness risk with an empty-room and aides composition.

the truman doctrine

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Replaced Truman likeness with institutional congressional debate scene.

the truman doctrine

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the uneasy wartime alliance

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Replaced Big Three likeness risk with anonymous wartime planning imagery.

the war on terror begins

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Replaced George W. Bush likeness with institutional security decision scene.

the yalta conference

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tito dies

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Regenerated to remove flags and avoid Tito portrait imagery; mourning is shown through a non-identifying public queue.

tito takes power

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Regenerated as a postwar civic-building scene that avoids Tito likeness, leader portraits, maps, and a static meeting-table composition.

versailles becomes a road to war

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Replaced extremist/leader imagery with a non-identifying interwar social and economic strain scene.

xi jinping centralises power

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Replaced living-leader likeness with institutional centralization scene.

yalta and the shape of peace

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maos china

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Replaced Mao-addressing-crowd imagery with a non-identifying commune and state-building scene without leader portraits or protected emblems.

the collapse of the soviet union

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Replaced Yeltsin tank-speech and flag-lowering imagery with a non-identifying late-Soviet public and administrative scene.

the cuban missile crisis

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Replaced recognizable Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro collage imagery with anonymous period crisis-room work and naval tracking.

the kim dynasty

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Replaced leader-and-flag spectacle with a non-identifying Pyongyang civic scene to avoid Kim-family likenesses and reduce symbol accuracy risk.

the rise and fall of yugoslavia

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Replaced combat-forward civilian-flight imagery with a non-graphic transit-station scene that avoids political-leader likenesses, maps, readable text, and active battlefield imagery.

the rise of adolf hitler

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Replaced Hitler rally imagery with a non-identifying Weimar street scene without leader likenesses, Nazi flags, swastikas, or extremist symbols.

american presidents

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Replaced modern president likenesses with older deceased presidents who died before 1950.

british monarchs

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Replaced modern royal likenesses with older monarchs who died before 1950.

british monarchs 2

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Replaced modern royal likenesses with an institution-focused monarchy scene for homepage and card usage.

british prime ministers

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Replaced modern politician likenesses with older prime ministers who died before 1950.

china presidents

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Replaced Mao-to-Xi leader likenesses with a non-identifying institutional succession scene without flags or state emblems.

russian soviet leaders

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Replaced modern Russian/Soviet leader likenesses with a non-identifying institutional transition scene without flags, maps, busts, or emblems.

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