Images

Title page of the 1830 edition of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World.

Edward G. Walker (sometimes given as Edwin G. Walker, l. 1830-1901), son of abolitionist David Walker, one of the first two Black men elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature.

The UK-US military intelligence listening station at RAF Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, England. The satellite ground station is used to intercept communications and warn of missile attacks. The site was built in the mid-1950s and is still in...

Soviet War memorial in the Großer Tiergarten, Berlin, photographed by Manfred Brueckels, 2007. The memorial itself was unveiled in November 1945 to commemorate the Soviet Union's losses in the war, especially those who died during the Battle...

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, a lithograph propaganda poster by Soviet artist El Lissitzky, 1920. In the poster, the red triangle represents the Bolsheviks and the Red Army penetrating and defeating the White movement, their opposition...

A photograph of Red Army soldiers at Stalingrad laughing as they are shown ersatz German equipment by a fellow comrade, 1943. Imperial War Museums, London.

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 Crispus Attucks.

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.