Colonialism/Imperialism

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Pedro Albizu Campos, noted anti-imperialist, addressing a crowd in 1936
Reframing the American Empire
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
Men and women in Karnataka, India, voting in 2009 General Election.
Right-Wing Politics in India
Over one million people participated in anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong in June 2019.
Hong Kong in Protest
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
A celebration of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Sudan in Crisis
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall
Modern China and Its Institutions
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
Thousands of protesters in Yemen's capital city, Sana'a, in 2011.
Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
Artifact from Benin
Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
Monte Albán
A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico
Monte Albán
Una Postal de Oaxaca, México
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"
Russia’s Lost Empire
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.
The Old Informing the New
An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006
Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration
Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.
Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States
Dr. Aleš Hrdlička
“No law can change our blood"
A child working in a Congolese gold mine in 2009.
A New Congo Crisis?
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ.
Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth