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Middle and Southern English Colonies
The establishment of the Middle and Southern English Colonies of North America was encouraged by the earlier English settlements of Jamestown Colony of Virginia in the south (founded 1607) and Plymouth Colony and, especially, Massachusetts...
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The Marquis de Lafayette with James Armistead Lafayette
A portrait of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (center) at the Siege of Yorktown; on the right is depicted James Armistead, an enslaved African American spy who gathered intelligence on the British army to deliver to the marquis. After...
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Battle of Brandywine
The Battle of Brandywine (11 September 1777) was a major battle of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), fought between a British army under Sir William Howe and the American Continental Army led by General George Washington. The battle...
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Religion in Colonial America
Religion in Colonial America was dominated by Christianity although Judaism was practiced in small communities after 1654. Christian denominations included Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, German Pietists, Lutherans, Methodists...
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Religion & Superstition in Colonial America
Religion and superstition went hand in hand in Colonial America, and one’s belief in the first confirmed the validity of the second. The colonists' worldview was completely informed by religion and so everything that happened - good or bad...
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Tobacco Plantation
Tobacco Plantation, detail of a print by Richard H. Laurie, 1821 CE.
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Bes Amulet
A faience amulet of the Egyptian protective deity Bes. Egypt, 950-700 BCE. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
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The Buddhist Goddess Tara
The Buddist goddess Tara, gold and silver figure from Java, 9th century.
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Odes of Horace
Odes of Horace. Illuminated by William Morris c. 1873 CE from the Collected Works of William Morris Vol. XI.
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Illuminated Manuscript of the Rubaiyat
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (l. 1048-1131 CE), illuminated by William Morris.