Images

Election Day in Philadelphia, a cityscape depicting the excitement and festivity of the election, oil on canvas by John Lewis Krimmel, 1815. Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Delaware.

Independence Day Celebration in Centre Square, Philadelphia, depicting the celebrations of 4 July 1819, painting by John Lewis Krimmel, c. 1819.

Proclamation of the Independence of Peru, oil on canvas by Juan Lepiani, 1904. Lepiani depicts José San Martín (1778-1850) declaring Peruvian independence on 28 July 1821 in Lima, Peru. National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History...

Miguel Hidalgo (1753-1811), Catholic preist and leader of the Mexican independence movement, print portrait by an unknown artist. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public...

A French Resistance fighter, smiling in defiance, faces a German firing squad during the occupation of France in the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Museums

Simón Bolívar (1793-1830), Venezuelan military officer and statesman, mezzotint portrait by Charles Turner, 1827. Known as "The Liberator", Bolívar led several countries in South America to independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th...

An official report of the trials of sundry Negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection in the state of South-Carolina preceded by an introduction and narrative: and, in an appendix, a report of the trials of four white persons...

Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot (4-24 March 24, 1802) during the Haitian Revolution. Original illustration by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Ernst Hébert, published in Histoire de Napoleon, by M. de Norvins, 1839.

A photograph taken in June 1944 showing US Army M10 tank destroyers passing the Colosseum in Rome.

A photograph showing Soviet Red Army troops on skis at the entrance of the Hermitage Museum. Taken during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) from September 1941 to January 1944 during the Second World War (1939-45)