Us: Did you mean...?

In this gallery, we present artist Nicha Sursock's series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. The series is titled 400 years of US history 1607-2007. It begins with...

Although slaveholders in 19th century America regularly claimed their “property” was content with living in bondage, attempted or successful escapes by slaves were fairly common...

The U.S.–Mexican War (1846–1848) marked a decisive moment in the territorial and political transformation of North America. The conflict was triggered by the U.S. annexation of Texas (1845) and a disputed southern...

This U.S. National Park Services map shows the major ancestral Puebloan sites in the Four Corners area of what is now the United States of America.

Let Us Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares, a bronze sculpture by Soviet artist Evgeny Vuchetich, presented to the United Nations on 4 December 1959. Garden of the United Nations Headquarters, New York.

The destruction of US Navy battleships while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, photograph by the US Navy, 07 December 1941. Damage following the Japanese aerial bomb and torpedo attack at Pearl Harbor. Visible...

Signing of the Treaties of Alliance between the US and France in 1778, which led to France's entry into the American Revolutionary War. Reproduction of an oil on canvas painting by Charles...

A United States postage stamp from 1945, showing the celebrated photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal that captured the raising of the US flag on Mount Suribachi by US Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in WWII's Pacific...

A June 1918 photograph of US destroyers painted with dazzle camouflage to disguise their form. This type of camouflage was first developed in Britain during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums...

A photograph of men and women in London riding in a US car and celebrating the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918 which ended the First World War (1914-1918). Imperial War Museums, London...