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Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE) was the second dynasty of Imperial China (the era of centralized, dynastic government, 221 BCE - 1912 CE) which established the paradigm for all succeeding dynasties up through 1912 CE. It succeeded the...
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Map of the Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny) of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a transformative uprising that shook British rule in South Asia. Sparked in May 1857 by mutinous sepoys ((from Persian sepāhī, for soldier)) of the East India Company in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, the revolt quickly...
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Ruins of Jamestown after Bacon's Rebellion
Ruins of Jamestown, 1676. Illustration from page 45 of A School History of the United States, from the Discovery of America to the Year 1878 by David B. Scott, New York, Harper & brothers, 1879 CE. The engraving depicts the ruins of Jamestown...
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Maji-Maji Rebellion, German East Africa
An early-20th-century painting by Wilhelm Kuhnert depicting German-led African Askari troops at the Battle of Mahenge during the Maji-Maji Rebellion (1905-7) against colonial rule in German East Africa.
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Whiskey Rebellion
Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Oil on canvas painting attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer, c. 1795.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion as depicted in Samuel Warner's Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County, 1831.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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A Mob Tars and Feathers a Federal Tax Collector During the Whiskey Rebellion
In western Pennsylvania, a mob has tarred and feathered a federal tax collector in the unrest surrounding the Whiskey Rebellion, 1791-1794. Illustration from the book Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred...
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Bacon's Rebellion: The Burning of Jamestown
The Burning of Jamestown. Illustration by Howard Pyle, from page 120 of Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History: from 458 A.D. to 1905 by Benson John Lossing, Ed. Vol 5 of 10, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905 CE. The image depicts...
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Nat Turner & The Rebellion That Shook the South
In 1831, a slave rebellion led by #NatTurner shook the South to its core. In its wake, the grip of the slaveholders tightened even further. But who was Nat Turner, how did his #rebellion start, and how should this horrible event be viewed...
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Coyote Tales of the Shasta Nation
The Coyote tales come from the Shasta people who originally inhabited the regions of modern-day northern California and southern Oregon. Coyote is a popular trickster figure among many Native peoples of North America, including the Shasta...