AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Members of the Russian Red Guard are seen during a march in Chita, Siberia, in 1917. (AP Photo)

This is an aerial view of Dublin's North Earl Street, which was destroyed in an explosion, April 23, 1916, during the Irish Republican Army's Easter u...

Armenian victims of the massacres in Turkey are seen in 1915. (AP Photo)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is shown with his two sons by his morganatic wife, Sophia, Duchess of Hohenberg, Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, a...

This is a wide-angle view of the track at the Indianapolis Speedway, seen in 1912. (AP Photo)

This is a wide view of the Indianapolis Speedway, May 30, 1911. (AP Photo)

Fire escape which collasped hurling 20 people to their death 12 stories below. 1911 photo. (AP Photo)

This is a partial view of floor construction of the upper Gatun Lock of the Panama Canal, showing wall form towers and sidewall culvert forms, Dec. 15...

French flyer Louis Bleriot, second left, with his wife Alicia, is surrounded by wellwishers after landing on a golf course near Dover, England, on Sun...

French aviator Louis Bleriot nearing the French coast as he attempts to fly across the English Channel, July 25, 1909. (AP Photo)

French aviator Louis Bleriot, wearing his flying helmet, after he had flown across the English Channel, from Les Baraques and landed on a golf course...

Louis Bleriot at the controls of the plane which made the first flight across the English Channel, July 25, 1909. (AP Photo)

A plane piloted by Louis Bleriot, the French aviator, is shown after crossing the English Channel, July 25, 1909. (AP Photo)

Hospital tent shown in 1904, Las Vegas, Nev. The men are unidentified. (AP Photo)

Helen Keller is shown after she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, 1904. (AP Photo)

Nathan Hale, who declared

Missouri students, all women, train for military science and tactics under Lt. Enoch H. Crowder, 1885. (AP Photo)

German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II at the age of 35 shown in 1894. (AP Photo)

The Liberty Bell is removed to Allentown, Pa., for safekeeping before the British occupation of Philadelphia, 1777. (AP Photo)

British Army Gen. John Burgoyne's men surrender at Saratoga, N.Y., Oct. 17, 1777 during the Revolutionary War. (AP Photo)

Abraham Lincoln is shown as a lawyer in Springfield, Ill., 1837. (AP Photo)

This is Fort Stevens in Washington, where President Abraham Lincoln, standing at left, came under enemy fire during the Civil War, July 1864. (AP Phot...

American troops at Valley Forge during bleak times in Dec. 1776 are depicted in this illustration reproduced from the Library of Congress collection...

South Carolina the Celebration of Emancipation Day in Charleston on Jan 8,1877.(AP Photo)

Artwork of the Celebration of Emancipation Day in Charleston, South Carolina, Jan. 8, 1877. The procession forming near Citadel Square. (AP Photo)

This is a scene from the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, in which British troops fired their muskets on civilians, killing five of them, and sparked t...

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at press conference Nov.17,1987 in Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel, minutes before his departure for a one-week trip...

This is Fort Sumter, S.C., after bombardment from Morris Island, April 1861. (AP Photo)

This illustration from the Library of Congress collection depicts British assault troops landing at Closters and climbing up the Palisades after their...

President Abraham Lincoln is shown in a photograph by W.A. Thomson, made in Monmouth, Ill., on the day of his debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Oct. 185...

Fort Stevens in the northern part of the District of Columbia is shown during the Civil War with Union soldiers ready to stop Stonewall Jackson's thru...

Union troops charge across the broken ground to effect a breakthrough during the Battle of Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864, following the explosion of...

In this sketch made by an artist for Harper's Weekly, President Abraham Lincoln is seen on the day of his inauguration as his procession passes the ga...

Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C., is shown before the battle of April 12, 1861. The pentagonal fortress was built on a mound of sea shells and...

British troops fire at colonists in Boston, Mass., in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. Five colonists were killed. It is believed that this incid...

In this drawing by combat artist Alfred R. Waud, Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, on horseback, directs the fire of the 4th U.S. Artillery against the Confeder...

Confederate soldiers are shown during the Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, as Gen. George E. Pickett orders his 15,000 men to charge. (AP Photo)

Confederate soldiers rake the field over which Union troops charged six times, from behind the stone walll at the Sunken Road, in the blood Battle of...

This painting by John Trumbull depicts the death of Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery, leader of the American invaders, shown Dec. 31, 1775, during the reb...

British troops fire at colonists in Boston, Mass., in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. Five colonists were killed. It is believed that this incid...

In this drawing by combat artist Alonzo Chappel, Union and Confederate forces engage in close fighting at Fair Oaks, Va., seven miles from Richmond, d...

In this engraving by artist Thomas Nast, Union soldiers capture a Confederate earthwork during the 10-month-long siege of Petersburg, Va., July 1864....

Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot, is congratulated by Gen. Horatio Gates after victory over the British at Saratoga, N.Y., 1777. Kosciusko, an engi...

This was the scene inside a Fort Sumter, S.C., casemate during the 34-hour bombardment, April 12, 1861. Smoke from the burning magazine fills the gun...

Gen. George Washington leads his troops across the Delaware River in this painting by Emmanuel G. Leutze, Dec. 1776, during the Revolutionary War. (A...

William Jennings Bryan makes a campaign speech in Chicago, 1896. (AP Photo)

Nadelnja Konstantinova Krupskaja, member of the Petersburg

The Battle of Lexington, Mo., fought September 18, 1861 in this sketch, will be re-enacted by Wentworth Military Academy cadets. (AP Photo)

A section of the Spindletop Field in Beaumont, Texas, circa 1901 when wells were drilled so close together above the huge underground pool that a man...

Jewish Immigrant about to have his meal in the coal cellar that serves as his home in the lower eastside of New York City, 1890. (AP Photo/Jacob Riis)