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Material Culture—Images

Huejotzingo Codex of 1531

Material Culture—Objects

Bevel-rimmed Bowls

Maps

Mapping the World With Web-based GIS

Ptolemy's Historic Map

Music

The Mission

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Official Documents

Regulation of Marriage

Spanish Conquest of Mexico—Two Views

Hammurabi's Code

Personal Accounts

Crusade of Richard I

Modern Racism

Newspapers

London Times Dispatch

Stalin's Death in the Soviet Press

Travel Narratives

A Voyage to Surat

Women’s Travel Writing

John Ledyard’s Journal

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