Early Modern History

Matthew Fisher, associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the earliest coll... Read more

David Loewenstein, Erle Sparks Professor of English and Humanities at Penn State, discusses the daring originality of Mi... Read more

Carla Gardina Pestana, professor of history at UCLA, will argue for the importance of Cromwell's effort and its outcome.... Read more

If England’s King Charles II and his courtiers had had their way, most of eastern North America would have been the pers... Read more

Clive Holmes, emeritus fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will provide a context for the 1692 determination by the Pu... Read more

Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington, explains how one particular map might be use... Read more

Kathleen Wilson, professor of history at Stony Brook University and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, discusses... Read more

Tim Harris, professor of history at Brown University and the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow, examines th... Read more

John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at The H... Read more

Carla Gardina Pestana delivers this Society of Fellows lecture at The Huntington. In 1685, after he supported the invasi... Read more

Andrew O’Shaughnessy, vice president of Monticello and professor of history at the University of Virginia, dispels the i... Read more

Susan Juster, professor of history at the University of Michigan and the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, discuss... Read more

John Morrill of Cambridge University draws on eyewitness testimony to examine the exceptional violence and disruption br... Read more

Historian Daniela Bleichmar, co-curator of the exhibition “Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus... Read more

James Simpson discusses how Early Modern English literature and visual culture responded to evangelical absolutism. Simp... Read more

Margo Todd, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the Fletcher Jones Foundation... Read more

Susan Brigden, Langford Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, discusses the diplomatic consequences of when Henry VIII decl... Read more

Alain Touwaide explores some iconic sites in the Mediterranean world—Pompeii, Constantinople, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada,... Read more

Dena Goodman, professor of history at the University of Michigan, discusses a group of young men whose passion for scien... Read more

Niklas Frykman discusses the rise and fall of the mutinous Atlantic, and why today we might once again wish to remember ... Read more