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Postage stamps issued by Italy for its various African colonies between 1920 and 1941. (Private Collection)

Italian Fascist Marshal Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955) visiting Mogadishu as viceroy of Italian East Africa (18 February 1937). Rodolfo Graziani was one of the main perpetrators of the brutalities of Italian colonialism, due to his role in...

A gouache on paper painting titled The First Colony, Jamestown 1607 by Nicha Sursock. This is the first of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Foreground, from left to right: Lord Baltimore, Baron De la Warr, Opechancanough...

An envelope with a Penny Black stamp attached. The first postage stamp, the Penny Black was introduced in Britain in May 1840.

Abaché and Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Both Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, were originally from present-day Benin, where they...

Oluale Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Kossola (c. 1841-1935), later known as Cudjo Lewis, a Yoruba man of what is now Benin, was abducted by slavers in April 1860 and secretly...

Wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. The "wreckage," as pictured here, would be the dark line of wood appearing out of the water, not the boat on shore...

A painting on canvas titled Apotheosis by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.

A painting on canvas titled Dionysus by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.

Murder of the Duke of Orléans, illumination on parchment by the Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre, included in Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique, folio 52, Bruges, c. 1470-1480. During a power struggle for the throne of France...