What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Shanna Daniel, a conservator on the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck project, talked about Blackbeard and his acts of piracy in the early 18th century.

Work to expand one of William & Mary’s iconic brick pathways came to a sudden stop recently when a previously unknown access point to an early 18th-century drain was uncovered. The existence of a ...

Letter-writing in the 18th century. I was less quick to understand that letters were not just a source for learning about religion and slavery; rather, letter-writing itself is a practice with a ...

Part four: The culmination of the early history of violin playing, 1700-1761. Introduction: the 'evolution of progress' theory, a summary view of the violin -- The violin and bow of the early ...

2. David Mandelbaum: the western migration of the Cree -- 2.3. First contacts: 1640 -- 1690 -- 2.4. The establishment of the fur trade: 1690 -- 1740 -- 2.6 The occupation of the plains: 1820 -- 1880 - ...

COUNTY DOWN, NORTHERN IRELAND—BBC News reports that a cobbled courtyard surrounded by traces of buildings with tiled and flagged floors were discovered during drainage work near Castle Ward, an ...