Colonialism/Imperialism

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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
Logo for "Canada 150".
Canada 150: Coming Home
A 2016 street mural in Lithuania depicting the 'fraternal kiss.'
Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954
The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.
A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles
Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline
A 2016 protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock
The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”
Indian troops in Burma, 1944.
A Forgotten Theater of War