Early Modern

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Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, by Charles R. Geisst Philadelphia By Spencer Tyce Book Cover.
Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years
William Shakespeare
The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found
Depiction of Isaac Newton
A “God Particle” for Isaac Newton’s Birthday
Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells Book cover.
Shakespeare For All Time
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs book cover.
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle Book Cover
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover
The Jamestown Project
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Cover of A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom.
Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons
Cover of the Measure of Earth The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Figuring Out the Shape of the World
Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920.
Why Piracy Remains a Threat
The Epsom Clock Tower in the UK.
How Clocks Helped Conquer the World
Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.
The First “First Thanksgiving”
Statue of Peter the Great in Moscow
The Past and Future of Russian-American Relations