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The Course of Empire: Destruction, Painted by Thomas Cole, depicts a highly dramatic, catastrophic image of Rome's end.
Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion
Chinese manufactured goods, like this jar from the Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items.
Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade
A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon.
Medieval Public Relations Battles
Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
Palais de Beaulieu
The Theological Third Way in Latin America
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
An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets Domesticated the West
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall
Modern China and Its Institutions
illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
Castilian ambassadors attempt to ally themselves with Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada.
The Iberian Realm of Islam
This postcard depicts a recreation of the Arbella, the ship that carried John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans to present-day Massachusetts.
From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.
Built Upon Bounty
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' declaration from Flag Day 1919 that forbade membership in the organization to anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other organizations perceived as unpatriotic.
Sanitizing American Tradition
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
“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
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.
"Lone Wolves" No More
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.
A New View of West African Empires
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was one of the bloodiest in history: 8 million people lost their lives in Europe's deadliest religious conflict.
Secularism, Past and Future
A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee. It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.
The American Civil War, Then and Now