Browse Collections (4 total)

Piracy and Slavery

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Piracy is often thought about as a life of freedom. This collection will break down the ideas of pirates and how they contradicted their actions on…

Piracy in South America and the Caribbean

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This collection explores maps and stories of piracy in the Carribean and South America. Some items are also from the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of…

The Spanish Conquest

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This collection brings in secondary and primary sources to analyze how the Spanish were able to conquer the Americas while also showing the…

Technology

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Technology was crucial to the development of colonies in the Americas. Developments in weapons, shipbuilding, agriculture, and fortifications all…