Images

The Copper Horse statue, depicting George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) as a Roman emperor on horseback. Designed by Richard Westmacott, 1829. Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England.

Statue of Queen Victoria (r. 1837-1901), designed by Thomas Brock, 1906. Bangalore, southern India.

The King George V Memorial, commemorating George V, king of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions (r. 1910-1936) in Melbourne, Australia, designed by William Leslie Bowles, 1952. The image shows the statue before it was beheaded by...

Statue of George VI, king of the United Kindgom (r. 1936-1952), designed by Gilbert Ledward, 1958. Zoological and Botanical Gardens of Hong Kong.

Statue of Queen Elizabeth II (r. 1952-2022). The design was selected by the queen herself and built by stonemason Richard Bossons to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee in 2022. York Minster, northern England.

The Italian Colonial Empire emerged during the period of New Imperialism (late 19th–early 20th centuries) as the recently unified Kingdom of Italy sought to secure its place among the European great powers. Motivated by a combination of economic...

Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," formerly enslaved on a cotton plantation along the Atchafalaya River, showing his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the whipping, his wounds were salted...

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from New Orleans, Louisiana, also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves, carte de visite by Charles Paxson, 1863. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

An unidentified African-American man lynched from a tree. Photograph by National Photo Company, 1925. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

A photograph of a woman radio operator in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)