Images

The flag of the United Nations showing a global map with the North Pole as the centre and two olive branches to symbolise peace.

An image of Crispus Attucks created c. 1854 when he became an inspirational figure for the abolitionist movement in the United States. There is no way of knowing whether this image represents the actual...

Headstone for the victims of the Boston Massacre in the Granary Burying Ground. Photograph by Rhododendrites, 2019.

Reenactors bring childhood in the Viking Age to life, 2012. Archeon, Alphen aan den Rijn.

The Guayaquil Conference, an 1822 meeting between libertadors José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil, Ecuador to discuss the future of an independent Peru and an independent South America, painted by J. Collignon...

The Battle Monument, Baltimore, a memorial which honors those who died at the Battle of Baltimore (1814), a print by William Goodacre, 1831. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The...

The Battle of Boyacá, a victory during Simón Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada from Spain, painted by Martín Tovar y Tovar, 1890. Federal Legislative Palace, Caracas, Venezuela.

A map of the Republic of Colombia (1819-1831), a state that covered much of northern South America after independence from the Spanish Empire, by Agostino Codazzi, 1840. The map depicts the Republic of Colombia divided into...

Portrait of Benjamin Russell (1761-1845), the journalist who first coined the term 'Era of Good Feelings' to describe the period of national unity among citizens of the USA, by S.A. Scheff, 1852.

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.