Images on this Website

I hold the copyright for photographs and other images on this website with the exception of the images below, which are in the public domain and/or are used under license as described below.

"Time to Bridge That Gulch"

This editorial cartoon shows the United States and Russia confronting each other, as an eagle and a bear, during the Cold War. It won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.
It was created by Bruce Alexander Russell and published in the Los Angeles Times on November 30, 1945. The image is now in the public domain and available on Wikimedia Commons.

Oval Office Meeting

In this photograph, President Ronald Reagan meets with his advisors in the Oval Office to discuss the unfolding Iran-Contra Affair.
This photo was taken on November 25, 1986. U. S. Government photographs are in the public domain. This photo is available on the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library Website.

Rainbow Mind

This image is a visual representation of the neurodiversity paradigm and is intended to depict conditions such as autism as different rather than pathological ways of being. More generally, it nicely represents the creative role of social construction in depicting the world.
It was created by MissLunaRose12 on August 5, 2019. This image is used under a Creative Commons license and is available on Wikimedia Commons.

The Writing Master

This work by Thomas Eakins, The Writing Master, was painted in oil on canvas in 1882. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
This image was donated to Wikimedia Commons by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an Open Access Artworks Challenge; it is used under a Creative Commons license and is available on Wikimedia Commons.

Flags outside UN Headquarters

This photograph shows flags flying outside the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City.
It was created by an employee of the US Agency for International Development on September 22, 2010. U. S. Government photographs are in the public domain. It is available on Wikimedia Commons.

East African Community Leaders

This photograph shows the heads of state of five members of the East African Community: Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, and Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi (from left to right).
It was created by nukta77 on April 29, 2009. This image is used under a Creative Commons license and is available on Wikimedia Commons.

JCS Chair Dunford

In this photograph, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., is shown listening to the remarks of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on US strategy in Asia delivered at the 16th Shangri-La Dialogue Asia security conference in Singapore, June 3, 2017.
This photograph was created by an employee of the US Department of Defense; U. S. Government photographs are in the public domain. It is available on Wikimedia Commons.

President Bush Rallies Firefighters

In this photograph, President George W. Bush speaks before firefighters and rescue workers in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In an impromptu speech, Bush exclaimed, “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
This photograph by Eric Draper is held in the collection of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum; U. S. Government photographs are in the public domain. It is available on Wikimedia Commons.

Chinese Warship Ting Yuang in Japan

This photograph of a Japanese woodblock print shows the Chinese warship Ting Yuang, the flagship of the Chinese Navy in the late 19th century, paying a port visit to Japan.
The photograph, and the original woodblock print, are in the public domain under Japanese law. It is available on Wikimedia Commons.

Students in a Computer Lab

This photograph of students in a computer lab was part of a University of Salford exhibition at the Manchester Science Festival posing the question, “what has the internet ever done for us?”
The image, uploaded by SchuminWeb, was produced by the University of Salford Press Office. It is used under a Creative Commons license and is available on Wikimedia Commons.

Campus Center at UMass Boston

This photograph shows the interior of the Campus Center on the University of Massachusetts Boston campus.
It was created by Diderot on February 8, 2011. This image is in the public domain and is available on Wikimedia Commons.