A project covering the era of major governmental changes in Europe, as well as the rise of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
Distinguishes between fact and fiction the characters of Alexander Dumas's book, The Three Musketeers, with those of the real historical world, includes biographies and a hoax page.
Timeline of the legislation which carried into law the evolution of American slavery with bibliography.
An attempt to dislodge the Dutch in 1617.
Scans of The London Gazette, September 10, 1666, containing a detailed eyewitness account of the fire.
From Report of the Estates of Normandy (1651) and Letters of the Abbess of Port-Royal.
A complete transcription of the trial of the conspirators of 1605 from the State Trials, 1750 edition.
The complete text dated September 12, 1636.
Excerpt that satirizes the chivalric traditions of the Middle Ages as absurdly old-fashioned.
The setting of French law and social structure into the wider context of the law of nature and the law of God.
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