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The
Ancient World |
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Queen
Tomyris Defeats Cyrus the Great, 529 BC (by Herodotus) |
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Artemesia
at the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC (by Herodotus) |
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Speech
of Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC (by Arrian) |
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The
Death of Caligula, 41 CE (by Suetonius) |
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Claudius
Admits Foreigners to the Senate, 48 CE (Tacitus) |
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Boadicea's
Rebellion, 60 CE (by Tacitus) |
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Rome
Burns, 64 CE (by Tacitus) |
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The
Praetorian Guard Auction Off the Roman Empire, 193 CE (by Herodian) |
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Roman
Decadence, c. 400 CE (by Ammianus Marcellinus) |
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Dinner
with Attila the Hun, 450 CE (by Priscus) |
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The
Middle Ages (10th-14th Centuries) |
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A
Viking Funeral, 922 (by Ibn Fadlan) |
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The
Battle of Hastings, 1066 (from The Anglo Saxon Chronicle) |
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The
Battle of Hastings, 1066 (by William of Malmesbury) |
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Call
to the First Crusade, 1095 (by Pope Urban I) |
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The
Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170 (by Edward Grim) |
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Description
of Henry II of England, 1177 (by Peter of Blois) |
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The
Crusades: The Fall of Jerusalem, 1187 (by Ansbert) |
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The
Crusades: Richard the Lionheart's Instructions to his Followers,
1189 |
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Magna
Carta, 1215 |
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The
Black Death, 1348 (by Henry Knighton) |
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The
Peasant's Revolt, 1381 (by Jean Froissart) |
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15th
& 16th Century |
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Letter
from Joan of Arc to the King of England, 1429 |
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Christopher
Columbus' Journal: The Journey, 1492 |
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The
Trial of Anne Boleyn, 1536 (by Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador) |
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Letter
to Thomas Culpepper, 1541 (from Catherine Howard) |
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Cranmer
Is Burned At The Stake, 1556 (by a Bystander) |
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St.
Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572 (by De Thou) |
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Execution
of Mary Queen of Scots, 1587 (by Robert Wynkfield) |
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Queen
Elizabeth I's Armada Speech, 1588 |
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Return
to Roanoke, 1590 (by John White) |
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An
Audience with Elizabeth I, 1597 (by Andre Hurault) |
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17th
Century |
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Instructions
for Actors, 1603 (by William Shakespeare) |
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Instructions
for the Virginia Colonists, 1606 |
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Confession
of Guy Fawkes, 1606 |
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Shakespeare's
Will, 1616 |
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Sir
Walter Raleigh's Last Letter to His wife, 1618 |
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Sentence
of the Inquisition Against Galileo, 1633 |
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Letter
from Cromwell to Bereaved Parents, 1644 |
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The
First Blood Tranfusion, 1666 (by Pepys) |
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Great
Fire of London, 1666 (by Pepys) |
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Description
of a Coffee House, 1673 |
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The
Salem Witch Trials, 1692 (by William Phips) |
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18th
Century |
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Curriculum
at Boston Grammar School, 1712 (by Nathaniel Williams) |
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Smallpox
Vaccination in Turkey, 1717 (by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) |
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Dining
with the Sultana, 1718 (by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) |
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The
Education of Women, 1719 (by Daniel Defoe) |
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Jack
Sheppard, d. 1724 (from The Newgate Calendar) |
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Freedom
of the Press and Theatre, 1733 (by Voltaire) |
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Battle
of Culloden, 1746 (by Donald Mackay) |
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Advice
To A Friend About Marriage and Sex, 1745 (by Benjamin Franklin) |
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An
Experiment with a Balloon, 1783 (by Benjamin Franklin) |
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19th
Century |
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Plot
Against Napoleon, 1812 (by Louise Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne) |
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Napoleon
Returns, 1815 (by An English Lady Living in Paris) |
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Battle
of Waterloo, 1815 (by J. Kincaid, Rifle Brigade) |
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The
Peterloo Massacre, 1819 (by Samuel Bamford) |
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Diary:
Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837 (by Queen Victoria) |
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Letter
to Queen Victoria - Opium Trade, 1839 (by Lin Tse-Hsu) |
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Hill
of Bones: The First Afghan War, 1842 (by Rev. Arthur Male) |
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Naming
the US, 1846 (Graham's Magazine) |
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The
Donner Party, 1847 (by Capt. William Fallon) |
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Experimenting
with Ether During Childbirth, 1847 (by Jonathan Clark) |
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Life
for a Child Worker, 1849 (by Sarah Carpenter) |
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Theatrical
Broohaha , 1850 (from The Alta Californian) |
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Ain't
I A Woman? 1851 (by Sojourner Truth) |
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Maria
Perkins' Son Is Sold To A Slave Trader, 1852 (by Maria Perkins) |
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Yellow
Fever in New Orleans, 1853 (from Harper's New Monthly Magazine) |
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The
Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 (by Lord Raglan) |
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Conditions
at Scutari During the Crimean War, 1855 (from The Times) |
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Submarine
Hunley Sinks The Housatonic, 1864 (by Rear Adm. Dahlgren) |
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General
Lee's Farewell to His Troops, 1865 (by Gen. Robert E. Lee) |
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The
Assassination of President Lincoln, 1865 (by Mary Henry) |
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Adah
Isaacs Menken, 1867 (from Harper's New Monthly Magazine) |
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An
American Sees the Can-Can in Paris, 1869 (by Mark Twain) |
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Meeting
Jesse James, c. 1870s (by L.A. Sherman) |
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Narrow
Escape from a Living Burial, 1873 (from The New York Herald) |
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Another
Abscondist, 1873 (from the Virginia Enterprise) |
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Geronimo
Surrenders, 1886 (by Geronimo) |
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Jack
the Ripper: The First Murder, August 31, 1888 (from The Star, London) |
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Jack
the Ripper: The Last Murder, November 9, 1888 (from The Manchester
Guardian) |
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20th
Century |
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The
Assassination of William McKinley, 1901 |
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The
First Flight, 1903 (by Orville Wright) |
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Why
Climb Mount Everest?, 1922 (by George Leigh-Mallory) |
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Diary:
Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922 (by Howard Carter) |
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Speech:
We Shall Never Surrender, 1940 (by Winston Churchill) |
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