Who Is This Man?

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Who Is This Man?

Many people are familiar with history’s most compelling figures and stories because of the way they are presented in popular illustrations, novels, films, and television shows. But every generation sees history a little differently. This puzzle presents a double challenge: identify the historical figure in three popular depictions and the different decades in which the images were created.

Can you identify the 19th-century figure depicted in these three images?

Can you locate the decade in which each of these three images was created?

Painting of a wild-haired, bearded man holding a rifle and an open book aloft, standing above armed men with Confederate and Union flags in a dark, stormy battle scene.

Black-and-white engraving of a seated woman and child surrounded by a group of men in formal attire and military uniform, with a banner reading "Fraternity" above them.

A bearded man in a patterned vest stands on a wagon wheel ladder holding a pistol, surrounded by a group of armed men in a black-and-white film still.

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