Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Alth...

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

Nearly a million artifacts spanning four centuries of New York history were stored at the World Trade Center. These are the stories they told.

An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in a French Slave Port City

Swifties are buying old French documents for mood-boards and more. But this trivializes the importance of the documents.

The long read: The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

🔴 L'hommage de la nation à Marc et Simonne Bloch au Panthéon ➡️ La Marseillaise est entonnée par le Chœur de l’Armée française et la Maîtrise de Radio France, entourés d’élèves, d’étudiants, d’ensei...

Makeup tutorials and other Atlantic phenomena in Louis XIV's France

“Petit Dieppe was probably real: a small, semi-permanent merchant settlement on an estuary island at the mouth of the Timbo River. It doesn’t change much to know this small detail. But the drive to so...

The prolific and preeminent historian of the American Revolution who taught at Brown for nearly four decades died on Sunday, June 7, at age 92.

A one-day online introduction to Early Modern Legal records.

Les Archives nationales viennent de mettre en ligne les minutes des commissaires du Châtelet. Qu'est-ce que le Tribunal du Châtelet ? Qui