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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.

Ojibwa village at Sault Ste. Marie in 1846, oil on canvas by Paul Kane, 1849-1856. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

A c. 1769 oil-on-canvas portrait by the French painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard of Denis Diderot (1713-1784 CE), a French philosopher.

An oil-on-canvas portrait by the Russian painter, Dmitry Grigorievich Levitzky of the French Philosopher, Denis Diderot (1713-1784). It was painted in 1773.

A portrait by the French painter, Maurice Quentin de La Tour of François-Marie Arouet or Voltaire (1694-1778 CE), the French philosopher and historian. It was finished in 1735. The portrait was done in Rococo style using pastels. (Musée Antoine-Lécuyer...

A portrait by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon of Francois-Marie Arouet or Voltaire (1694-1778), a French philosopher and historian. It was finished around the year 1778. White Marble has been used for the sculpture. It is currently...

An oil-on-canvas portrait of the French philosopher, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755). It is estimated to have been made around the late-18th century by Jacques-Antoine Dassier. (Museum of the History...