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Selling a Freedman's Labour - Slavery by Another Name
Selling a freedman to pay his fine, at Monticello, Florida, wood engraving from a sketch by James E. Taylor, 1867. Depicted here is a free Black man in postbellum Florida, wrists tied in leather and stood atop an auction block, whose labour...
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The Union as It Was
The Union as it was, wood engraving by Thomas Nast, 1874. Illustrated here by Thomas Nast are two clasping figures, members of White supremacist paramilitary organizations, standing astride a shield depicting a terrorized Black family in...
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Churchill & Roosevelt, Casablanca, 1943
A photograph of the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) talking ot the press at the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War...
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Map of the World of Homer’s Iliad, c. 1200 BCE - The Aegean Bronze Age and the Epic World Around Troy
The key places, peoples, and commanders associated with Homer’s Iliad form a poetic geography of the Late Bronze Age Aegean and western Anatolia. Although the epic was probably composed in the 8th century BCE, it is set in the legendary final...
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Map of the Rise & Fall of Carthaginian Power, c. 650–146 BCE
Carthage (traditionally founded c. 814/813 BCE; destroyed 146 BCE) emerged from the wider Phoenician colonial world to become the leading Punic power in the western Mediterranean. From roughly the 7th century BCE, its influence expanded through...
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De Gaulle & Giraud Shake Hands at Casablanca, 1943
A photograph taken at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 showing General Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), recognised by the Allies as the leader of all French opposing the Germans, and his great rival General Henri Giraud (1879-1949...
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Roosevelt's Villa, Casablanca
The villa in Casablanca, Morocco where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) stayed during the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45).
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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The Kish Tablet - And the Earliest Evidence of Writing
The Kish Tablet, illustration by José-Manuel Benito, July 2006. The Kish Tablet, from Tell al-Uhaymir, Iraq, is among the oldest known inscriptions using proto-cuneiform symbols. Before this, writing was limited to numerical marks carved...
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Roosevelt & Churchill, Casablanca Conference
A photograph of the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) at the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial...
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Tehran Conference Dinner, 1943
A photograph of the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), and leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), having dinner at the Tehran Conference of November-December...
