Images

Battle of Lundy's Lane (25 July 1814), painting by Alonzo Chappel. New York State Military Museum.

Sir Gordon Drummond, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada during the War of 1812, and the Governor General of Canada from 1815 to 1816, portrait by George Theodore Berthon, c. 1882. Archives of Ontario.

This infographic illustrates the Causes of the American Revolution (1765-1789) rooted in a growing sense of American identity and dissatisfaction with British policies. The colonies, long accustomed to self-governance under the system of...

A photograph of the chief of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, Heinrich Müller (b. 1901). Müller was the head of the Gestapo from 1939 to 1945.

A device used by the Nazi Gestapo secret police to crush the fingers of detainees. (Imperial War Museums)

A September 1944 photograph of Nazi Gestapo prison cells at Breedonck in Belgium. (Imperial War Museums)

Pictographs known as Wandjina in the Wunnumurra Gorge, Barnett River, Kimberley, Western Australia.

Wonnarua painting of Baiame, near Milbrodale (south of Singleton, New South Wales). It shows an Aboriginal sacred site with a 50,000-year-old cave painting of Biamie, an Aboriginal mythology Creator God. Biamie was a powerful male god, and...

Rainbow Serpent by John Mawurndjul, 1991. Musée du quai Branly, Paris.

Australian Aboriginal rock painting of "The Rainbow Serpent". Photo by: Mark O'Neil www.digitaltribes.com.