Images

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.

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, 1843. Archivo...

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 New York Public Library...

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 12 administrative...