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Corn (maize) was central to the lives of Native Americans across North, Central, and South America. Maize was introduced to North America from Mesoamerica c. 700/900 CE and transformed the lives of the indigenous peoples. Every tribal nation...

Chunkey (tchung-kee) is a Native American game involving a rolling disc (or ring) and two teams of players who score by throwing their sticks to land as close to the disc as possible. The game is thought to have originated at Cahokia c. 600...

Slaves cutting the sugar cane, plate IV of the series "Ten Views in the Island of Antigua" by William Clark, London, 1823. British Library, London.

A map illustrating the patterns and routes of westward exploration and settlement in the United States after the “Louisiana Purchase” from France in 1803. As Napoleonic dreams of a great North American Empire gave way to French hegemonic...

The Mill Yard, part of the series Ten Views in the Island of Antigua by William Clark. Originally published/produced in Thomas Clay: London, 1823. British Library.

Wives for the settlers at Jamestown, illustration from page 110 of United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day by John Clark Ridpath, Boston...

General Napoleon Bonaparte leading the charge over the bridge on the first day of the Battle of Arcole (15 November 1796). Illustration from John Clark Ridpath's Ridpath’s History of the World, 1901.

A c. 1880 oil on canvas, Dancers in the Classroom, by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the French impressionist painter. The composition is striking as the dancers form a diagonal and receding line across the painting which contains a great empty...

An 1873 oil on canvas, Offering the Panel to the Bullfighter, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA)

An 1871 oil on canvas painting, Interior at Arcachon, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. Manet was fond of painting calm domestic scenes, as here with his wife and (probable) son, Suzanne and Léon-Edouard Leenhoff...