A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...

What was it like living in the 17th century? A family in late 17th-century England led a simple, not to mention laborious, life. A majority of the population lived in a one- or two-room house, which ...

Yet the story of the “book of arithmetic” that finally ... pre-decimal British currency and a gentle introduction to 17th-century England’s bamboozling array of weights and measures.

A witchcraft trial in England, 17th century. A suspected witch is lowered ... were the work of the Devil or witches. James I wrote a book on witchcraft that suggested ways of identifying and ...

Through her descriptive language, flair for supporting, relevant facts, and wonderfully rounded characters, readers will ...

In a volume entitled "New England's First Fruits", published in London in 1643, an article on Harvard College, the College being evidently numbered among New England's "first fruits", a brief ...