Learn how hats became symbols of power and protest in early modern England’s “hat wars,” and why refusing to remove one could ...

This paper was given at a conference and first published in Studien uber die Revolution, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1969. When we compare or contrast the English Revolution of the 17th century with the ...

Ballads were all the rage, and we’re not talking about 'Stairway to Heaven'. These were songs sung straight from the mouths of balladeers: musicians who went from place to place setting lyrics to ...

A remarkably unique 17th-century double portrait depicting a Black and white woman side-by-side as equals will remain in the U.K., it was announced today. It is due to go on display for the public ...

Samuel Fullerton is a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at Vanderbilt, where he teaches and writes on partisan politics in 17th-century England. Shortly after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death ...

The Incarnation, and Passion Lord, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory, To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam’st a woful story. To put on clouds instead of light, ...