Colonialism/Imperialism

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A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
The Benin Bronzes in the African Gallery at the British Museum.
LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.
“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.
The Dawes Act
Two pictures of Tom Torlino, a member of the Navajo Nation.
Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now
Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
Malawi
A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.
Early American Contagions
an artifact
Who Owns the Past?
An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006.
Westward Expansion & Imperialism: Horse of a Different Color?
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War
Amritsar Massacre
The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family
Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America
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