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“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
Iceberg, St. Lunaire.
A Postcard from Newfoundland
Logo for "Canada 150".
Canada 150: Coming Home
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles
Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline
The image of a Thunderbird on top of a totem pole
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”
Jackie Robinson
Top Ten Origins: The World Series
This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."
The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War
Lake Oroville, California, 2014.
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
Martha last passenger pigeon
100 years have gone by... still no Passenger Pigeons
Immigrant laborers, part of the Bracero program
Immigrant Deportations Today and the Continuing Legacy of "Operation Wetback"
Oneida Nation Friendship Statue from The National Museum of the American Indian
3/31/14: How Historians Can Help Native Americans
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.
Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover
The Jamestown Project
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.
Taking it on the Chin
A soldier stands guard at the U.S.-Mexican border in 1916.
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy
Wartime poster. Canada. The Bureau of Public Information was created in September 1939 to disseminate information about Canada’s war policies.
Can the New Administration Keep Canada as an Ally in Afghanistan?
Garden District of New Orleans.
Learning to Dance With the French
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1912 illustration, The First Thanksgiving, 1621
Now, About that First Thanksgiving Dinner…
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth
Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.
Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech
Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.
The First “First Thanksgiving”