Images

Map showing the flow of goods and enslaved people across the Atlantic between Europe, Africa and America in the transatlantic triangular trade which the European colonial powers operated from the 16th to the 19th centuries CE. This triangular...

"The Cotton Pickers" by Winslow Homer (1836 – 1910 CE). The painting depicts two African-American women labouring in the cotton fields. A major theme of the painting is the continuing racial and economic inequality that existed after the...

"Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon", painted 1851 CE by Junius Brutus Stearns (1810–1885 CE). The painting depicts George Washington (1732–1799 CE) on his Mount Vernon plantation. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Map of English and French colonies in North America c. 1758 CE. English-controlled colonies are shown in yellow, French colonies in green, and disputed territories in red. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Edmund Andros (l. 1637-1714 CE), the second governor of New York. Painted by Frederick Stone Batcheller (1837-1889 CE). Collection of the Rhode Island State House.

Map of the New Netherland colonies c. 1696 and 1701 CE, by Justus Danckerts. Collection of the Municipal Library of Trento.

"Colonel Benjamin Church" by an unknown artist, c. 1675 CE. Collection of the New York Public Library.

Portrait of Josiah Winslow (l. c. 1628-1680), governor of Plymouth Colony. Collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Painting of a Native American sachem (chief) commonly identified as a portrait of Niantic-Narragansett leader Ninigret (c. 1610-1677 CE). The painting has more recently been identified as Robin Cassacinamon (c.1620s-1692 CE), an influential...

"Americæ descriptio nova", a map of the Americas in 1666 CE. Made by William Trevethen, Philip Chetwind, and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1979 CE). Published by Impensis Philippi Chetwing. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress...