Articles with keyword "eighteenth century"
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Brass Hip Ornament
Within the culture of the Benin Empire, which thrived from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century in what is now southern Nigeria, only the oba, or sacred monarch, had the authority to
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Imperial Scrolls of China
Monumental paintings from the Qing dynasty document the power of its emperors.
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Four Acrobats
Four Acrobats, the mid nineteenth-century Indian miniature, was once part of an ordered series of paintings, each of which corresponded to one of the melodic modes—or rāga—of classical Indian music.
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Burying Molière
How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
Conversation
The China Scholar
Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.
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Name-Dropping In Rhode Island
Familiarly known as the “Ocean State,” Rhode Island’s full official name includes “and Providence Plantations,” words the state legislature has resolved to drop.
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.
