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The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776, oil on canvas by Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq, c. 1873. White House Cabinet Room, Washington, D.C.

A political cartoon meant to protest the Intolerable Acts of 1774; it depicts a Mohawk woman, representing America, held down and force-fed tea by a man labeled as 'the Boston Port Act'. From Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating...

Mosaic at the Metro Station Avenida de America, Madrid, representing the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus (l. 1451-1506 CE).

A gouache on paper painting titled America Before Independence by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Peter Stuyvesant and Richard Nicholls (1664) in New Amsterdam, Sachem Sassacus and...

Cover of Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell. Published by Oxford University Press.

Tanasee Bald viewed from the Courthouse Overlook, North Carolina, October 2016. Photograph by Thomson 200. Tanasee Bald is the mountain said to be the home of the giant Tsul'Kalu, the earth spirit who presided over hunting and hunting rituals...

North American Black Bear. Calcite Springs Overlook, Yellowstone National Park, 2011.

A map illustrating the rise and extent of the North Sea Empire under the rule of Cnut the Great (aka Canute, Cnut Cyning, or Knútr Inn Ríki) as a personal union of England, Denmark, and Norway between 1016 and 1035 CE. One of only two English...

The Puritans were English Protestant Christians, primarily active in the 16th-18th centuries CE, who claimed the Anglican Church had not distanced itself sufficiently from Catholicism and sought to 'purify' it of Catholic practices. The term...

Broadside condemning the sale and keeping of slaves in the District of Columbia, issued during the 1835-36 petition campaign by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.