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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera uses caricature and parody to mock the corruption of both the upper class and the criminal underworld. Instead of noble heroes or virtuous leaders, Gay presents a world where thieves and politicians are barely…

Image depicting a slave trading port in Savi, Benin.

Napoleon Bonaparte was declared emperor of France in 1804, and the English statesman William Pitt sat across a dining table, each carving out a piece from a plum pudding in the shape of the world. "The diminutive Napoleon, rising from his seat to…

Derelict tanks lie strewn about a chaotic battlefield at Clapham Junction, Ypres, Belgium, ca. 1918.

This educational module explores the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The unit details and explains the different organizations formed, the actions taken by them, and their results. This module will cover events, individuals, and groups…

This project includes audio descriptive text, a screen reader document for the educational module that accompanies the exhibition, and audio recordings of the descriptions for each section of the exhibition.

Missing dust jacket, yellowing pages

255 numerical pages (does not include blank endpages)

A book written and published in the United States right before the start of the Civil War about the duties of christian slave masters.