Images

Abaché and Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Both Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kossola, also known as...

Oluale Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Kossola (c. 1841-1935), later known as Cudjo Lewis, a Yoruba man...

Wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. The "wreckage," as pictured here, would be the dark line of wood appearing out of...

A painting on canvas titled Apotheosis by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.

A painting on canvas titled Dionysus by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.

Murder of the Duke of Orléans, illumination on parchment by the Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre, included in Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique, folio 52, Bruges, c. 1470-1480. During a power struggle...

A route within the Soluch (Suluq) concentration camp, which had circa 20.123 Libyan prisoners by 1931. Soluch is one of 19 concentration camps established by the Italian authorities on the orders of General Rodolfo...

In 1935, Renato Micheli composed the song 'Faccetta Nera' (Pretty/little black face) to commemorate the invasion of Ethiopia. The lyrics recount the liberation of a young Ethiopian woman from...

Ethiopian painting depicting the Battle of Gondar (13–27 November 1941) during the last stages of the East African Campaign in WWII. After the fall of Amba Alagi in May 1941 and Jimma in July, Gondar was the...

Haile Selassie (1892-1975), Emperor of Abyssinia, with Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford (left, 1882-1972) and Colonel Orde Wingate (right, 1903-1944) in Dambacha Fort, after it had been captured, 15 April...