Articles with keyword "seventeenth century"
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Soldier of Fortune: John Smith before Jamestown
Smith's experiences as a pirate, mercenary, and Turkish slave prepare him to survive in the New World.
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Night Physik
From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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The Public Historian
How Jill Lepore went from Harvard office temp to Harvard professor.
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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.