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A painting by William Hodges of Maitavie Bay, Tahiti in 1776. The ships are Resolution and Adventure under the command of Captain James Cook. (Royal Museums Greenwich)

The entrance hall of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin, designed by the architectural firm of Deane, Son & Woodward, 1853-1857. Photograph by Sena Bolek, 2025. The hall houses large pillars, balustrades, and bannisters crafted...

Photo of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) at the gates of Tripoli, Libya, raising the 'sword of Islam' and proclaiming himself 'protector of Islam'. The sword of Islam was a ceremonial propaganda object given to Mussolini to gain the favor of...

The Arch of the Philaeni, a monument to the Italian colonisation of Libya, was commissioned by Italo Balbo (1896-1940), governor of Libya from 1934 to 1940. The arch was designed by the architect Florestano Di Fausto and was inaugurated on...

The Abyssinian leaders Ras Seyum Mangasha (1887-1960), Ras Ghetacciù Abaté, and Ras Kebbedé Guebret, received in Rome by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) on 6 February 1937, swear allegiance after Abyssinia's annexation to the empire.

Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882), photograph by unknown photographer in Anna Murray Douglass, My Mother As I Recall Her by Rosetta Douglass Sprague, 1900. This photograph shows Anna Murray-Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass, later...

Men of Color To Arms! To Arms!, broadside by Frederick Douglass, Philadelphia, 1863. African-Americans played a crucial role in the Union war effort during the American Civil War; in fact, 10 percent of all Union forces were Black (186,000...

Portrait of Private Samuel R. Watkins, c. 1861-1865. Watkins (1839-1901) was an American author and Civil War veteran best known for his vivid war memoir Company Aytch: Or, A Side Show of the Big Show, published in 1882, in which he recalls...

Battle of Carabobo, oil on canvas mural by Martín Tovar y Tovar, 1887. This portion of the mural depicts an engagement fought at the Carabobo battlefield on June 24, 1821, between the patriot army, fighting for Venezuelan independence, and...

Ophelia, oil on canvas by John Everett Millais, 1851-1852. This painting depicts the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in which she falls into a stream and drowns after her father is murdered by Hamlet, her lover...