Images

Encampment of Crow Indians, oil on canvas by Joseph Henry Sharp, 1908. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D. C.

Crow Indians, by Karl Bodmer, between 1840 and 1843. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

British troops disembarking from warships in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1768, an 1898 colored copy of the original 1768 engraving by Paul Revere. Boston Public Library.

John Hancock (1737-1793), a wealthy Boston merchant and future American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, 1765. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

The Bloody Massacre, depicting the Boston Massacre that occurred on 5 March 1770, engraving by Paul Revere, 1770. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Charles Townshend (1725-1767), a British Member of Parliament and architect of the Townshend Acts of 1767-68. Portrait by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1765. Royal Academy, London.

Boston Massacre of 5 March 1770, with an emphasis on the death of Crispus Attucks. Chromolithograph by William L. Champney and J. H. Bufford, 1856. The Boston Athenæum.

A newspaper clipping from the Boston Gazette reporting on the funeral of four of the victims of the Boston Massacre, represented by an image of four coffins, each bearing the initials of a victim. These names from left to right include: Samuel...

A 1766 portrait of John Adams (1735-1826), an American lawyer, diplomat, and future President of the United States. This portrait was made four years before Adams successfully defended the British soldiers accused of firing on colonists in...

A depiction of the Boston Massacre of 5 March 1770, illustrating a more chaotic version of the incident than is seen in Paul Revere's famous engraving. By Alonzo Chappel, 1878. New York Public Library.