Archaeologists have uncovered “conclusive physical evidence” of the first church site, circa 1610, in Hampton in what is the ...

The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob ...

Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 ...

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There were no laws in early in 17th-century Virginia that defined the rights, or lack of rights, of blacks. Four cases that came before Virginia courts illustrate their flexibility in the early ...

The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular Vol. 21, No. 449, Jul. 1, 1880 Little-Known Composers of the Early Part... Little-Known Composers of the Early Part of the Seventeenth Century This is the ...

Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English generally viewed the trading of human lives with a certain degree of contempt. By 1640, however, with the growth of sugar plantations in ...

play in the medieval and early modern imagination, and in the otherworldly creatures and entities who appear in mountainous and similarly-liminal landscapes throughout this period. Ian’s research ...