17th Century

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: Document-Based Questions

This is part of a set of classroom materials for the Digital Collection Maps and the Beginnings of North America.

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January 17, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, Grades 4 and Up, Grades 6 and Up, Lesson Plans, Visual Literacy

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: Visual Literacy Class Activity (Grades K-8)

This is part of a set of classroom materials for the Digital Collection Maps and the Beginnings of North America.

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January 15, 2020

16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

Religious Wars in Early Modern Europe

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August 31, 2018

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

The Inquisition

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June 14, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Searching for Ophelia in the Archive

What does the archive offer for the exploration of Shakespeare in the digital age?

newberry
May 17, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

The Discovery of Chocolate

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April 13, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

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February 27, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Crossing Borders Across Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1500-1800

How did the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interact with each other? How did their competition over southeastern Europe shape these borderlands and their inhabitants?

newberry
February 13, 2018

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Women’s Fight for Their Inalienable Rights, 1630-1898

Page of text facing an image of a black woman seated at a desk holding a quill pen poised over a sheet of paper.

newberry
December 12, 2017

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Thinking about World History: Historic Maps as Sources

Blue, green, and orange map, centering on a projection from of the globe oriented around the North Pole

What can old maps teach us about world history? What sorts of evidence do they offer, and is displaying evidence the main purpose of these maps, or can they do other things?

newberry
August 1, 2017

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

The Medieval Spice Trade

How were spices used by medieval Europeans, and why were spices so valuable in medieval Europe?

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March 28, 2017

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Religious Change and the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1750

What did the rise and expansion of the Ottoman Empire look like in the eyes of European observers? How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe?

newberry
March 15, 2017