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National Library of Medicine: Konrad Gesner
Konrad Gesner was a 16th century Swiss naturalist and physician.
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National Library of Medicine: Paracelsus
Paracelsus was a.16th-century physician and alchemist famous for criticizing medical practices in his time.
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Northern Illinois University provides audio, visual, and text documents about Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years. You can search historical themes that relate to Lincoln and a biography of Lincoln. The site offers both primary and...
A&E Television
History.com: Native American History Timeline
Before Christopher Columbus came to America, the expansive territory was inhabited by Native Americans. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, as more explorers sought to colonize their land, Native Americans responded in various...
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Women Artists in History
solid list of female artists through time that includes links to other websites (some better than others) about these famous artists. Too many names to mention!
BBC
Bbc Radio 4: Voices of the Powerless: The Plague in England
This site explores the effect that the arrival of the plague had on the lives of common English men and women in the 16th and 17th centuries. Content includes an analysis of the plague's origin and spread, and the reactions of the...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Landscape Painters
ArtCyclopedia's chronological list of landscape painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Pattern of Exploraiton and Annihilation
Poignant account of the decimation of indigenous peoples in both South and North America during the 16th and 17th Centuries.
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Universidad De Chile: La America Espanola Colonial
Description of the colonial period in South America during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Provides information about the governmental structure during the colonial period, the economy, and the problems of the times. Gives some...
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History of Mannerism Architecture
This site lists a few different famous examples of Mannerist architecture from the 16th and 17th centuries. Click on the link and receive a large image and a biography of the work. Brief, but good information.
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Image Bank
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of 16th, 19th, and 20th-century images from the Victoria and Albert Museum which includes three images inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: a 1912 Costume for Viola, a painting...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cusco School Artist, Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
Paintings that celebrated St. Joseph as a youthful, caring father skyrocketed to popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries, both in Spain and throughout the Spanish Empire. This particular painting of the lively, vigorous St. Joseph...
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Si Spain: Auge Y Caida Del Imperio Espanol
This resource provides the chronology of the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: History Sourcebook: France 1360 the Peace of Bretigny
This Fordham University map shows France's boundaries in 1360, which lands were ceded to Edward, and the path of his march to Calais.
Curated OER
The Art of Warfare
An interesting look at the evolution of warfare and armies through the late 1500s in the context of historical background for a Renaissance recreation group (Le Poulet Gauche). Includes links to analyses of several famous battles and a...
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The Art of Warfare
An interesting look at the evolution of warfare and armies through the late 1500s in the context of historical background for a Renaissance recreation group (Le Poulet Gauche). Includes links to analyses of several famous battles and a...
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The Art of Warfare
An interesting look at the evolution of warfare and armies through the late 1500s in the context of historical background for a Renaissance recreation group (Le Poulet Gauche). Includes links to analyses of several famous battles and a...
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The Art of Warfare
An interesting look at the evolution of warfare and armies through the late 1500s in the context of historical background for a Renaissance recreation group (Le Poulet Gauche). Includes links to analyses of several famous battles and a...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Constitution of the u.s.
The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.
Digital History
Digital History: The Atlantic Slave Trade
A brief but sobering look at the slave trade and the number of slaves in the New World in the 16th, 17th, and early 17th centuries. Slaves could be found from Nova Scotia to Argentina.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Manuscript Illuminators
Artcyclopedia maintains an impressive list of links related to known medieval European manuscript illuminators, from the 13th century to the 16th. Page includes links to museum sites and archives where images of illumination can be...
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Unesco: Japan: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and Its Cultural Landscape
The Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine in the south-west of Honshu Island is a cluster of mountains, rising to 600 m and interspersed by deep river valleys featuring the archaeological remains of large-scale mines, smelting and refining sites and...
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Cultural and Historic Ensemble of Solovetsky Islands
The Solovetsky archipelago comprises six islands in the western part of the White Sea, covering 300 km2 . They have been inhabited since the 5th century B.C. and important traces of a human presence from as far back as the 5th millennium...
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