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Sam Houston, painting by unknown artist, 1836. Sam Houston (1793-1863), propelled by his victory at the Battle of San Jacinto and defeat of the Mexican army in the Texas Revolution, became the first president of the Republic of Texas, a...

Antonio López de Santa Anna, lithographic print originally included in Lucas Alamán's Historia de Méjico, 1852. Santa Anna (1794-1876) was a central figure in the political and military course of Mexican history in the first half of the...

A gouache on paper painting titled America Before Independence by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Peter Stuyvesant and Richard Nicholls (1664) in New Amsterdam, Sachem Sassacus and...

Two British postage stamps bearing the portrait of Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901). The Penny Black was the world's first postage stamp and issued from May 1840. As it was difficult to see an obliteration stamp (postmark) against a black...

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...