by Bryant Rodriguez-Cyriax | Jul 1, 2023 | 1600-1700
On December 16, 1773, American colonists in the city of Boston took a rise against the tyrannical rule of the hegemonic British empire and it’s unruly taxes by dumping more than 340 tons of imported British tea into the Boston Harbor. Why do you ask? The American...
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by Rebekah Santana | May 3, 2021 | 1600-1700
In the latter part of the 15th century, while sailing his second expedition, Christopher Columbus came across a small island—an island that long before 1492-1494 had been inhabited by the Taino population, and that at the time was called Boriquen. The Taino population...
by Matt Russo | May 2, 2021 | 1600-1700, 1800-1865
The pieces shown are engraved by Alexander Anderson. Anderson was an American physician and illustrator. He was born in New York City on April 21st, 1775. At just the age of twelve years old, he started to engrave pictures on to copper. He is one of the earliest...