Images

This illustration depicts the main types of gladiators in ancient Rome, professional fighters who became central to the bloody spectacles of the amphitheater. Drawn from diverse backgrounds: slaves, prisoners of war, criminals, and even freeborn...

A set of stamps issued in 1940 by Pitcairn Island commemorating the 1789 Bounty mutiny. Fletcher Christian led the mutineers to Pitcairn where they established a community.

Gravestone of Frederick Douglass, photograph by Daniel Penfield, Rochester, New York, 2018. Frederick Douglass died on 20 February 1895 from a heart attack at age 76 or 77 (his exact date of birth in February 1818 is contested). After a...

Cedar Hill, photograph by Walter Smalling in the Historic American Buildings Survey, October 1977. Frederick Douglass moved to this house in the late 1870s and lived there until his death in 1895. In 1988, the site was added to the list...

Frederick Douglass, photograph by George Kendall Warren, 1876. Frederick Douglass was one of the most important 19th-century African-American leaders who escaped slavery to become a prominent abolitionist, orator, writer, and social reformer...

Giuseppe Sapeto (1811 - 1895). Sapeto, a merchant and former priest, bought the bay of Assab (Eritrea) in 1869 commissioned by Italy, thus starting the Italian presence in the Horn of Africa.

Italian Askaris (colonial troops) in Libya. Photograph taken between 1922 and 1932.

Frontpage of the Italian newspaper 'Corriere Illustrato della Domenica', depicting a group of Askaris, Italian colonial troops, in a battle against the Sultan of Raheita. ('The Rebellion of the Sultan of Raheita. The Victory of Our Ascari'...

Italian troops shooting in Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War (1911). From Lombardi Historical Collection.

Umar al-Mukhtar (1858-1931), leader of the Libyan resistance to the Italian colonisation, with a group of resistance fighters.