Colonial – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Colonial – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Daily Life in Colonial America https://brewminate.com/daily-life-in-colonial-america/ Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:06:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=151999 Although the social hierarchy was more relaxed in the colonies, it still existed and descended from top to

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]]> American Women of the Colonial Period and the Nineteenth-Century City https://brewminate.com/american-women-of-the-colonial-period-and-the-nineteenth-century-city/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:07:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=135850 All opportunities for education, prospect, liberation and development were closed to women. By Khelifa Arezki and Katia Mahmoudi

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]]> The Extortion of Haiti by France in the Early 19th Century https://brewminate.com/the-extortion-of-haiti-by-france-in-the-early-19th-century/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:39:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=130115 After enduring decades of exploitation at the hands of the French, Haiti was forced to pay a tax

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]]> Prints and Printmakers in Colonial New Spain https://brewminate.com/prints-and-printmakers-in-colonial-new-spain/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:54:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=127512 Religious orthodoxy was critical during this period of the Counter Reformation and was enforced by the Inquisition in

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]]> Celebrating the New Year in Colonial America https://brewminate.com/celebrating-the-new-year-in-colonial-america/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:11:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=113551 American colonists actually celebrated New Year on March 25th! By Eryn Dion While modern day New Year’s celebrations

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]]> Colonial Australian Art: Helping Us to See When We Don’t Want to Look https://brewminate.com/colonial-australian-art-helping-us-to-see-when-we-dont-want-to-look/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:20:24 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=99086 Australia’s under appreciated colonial art is a window to the past that can help us understand the fraught

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]]> An Introduction to Colonial Brazil https://brewminate.com/an-introduction-to-colonial-brazil/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:38:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=111018 The Portuguese colonization of Brazil was like that of Spanish Latin America. The Portuguese Colonization of Brazil Now

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]]> The Spanish Conquistadores and Colonial Empire https://brewminate.com/the-spanish-conquistadores-and-colonial-empire-2/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:38:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=111086 The Spanish gained an early foothold in the colonies, quickly becoming the most powerful European power in the

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]]> Psalms and Silence: The Soundtrack of John Williams’s Captivity, 1704-1706 https://brewminate.com/psalms-and-silence-the-soundtrack-of-john-williamss-captivity-1704-1706/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:23:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=95855 Williams’s captivity narrative reinforces what we already know about religious life in colonial North America: mutual distrust pitted

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]]> Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America https://brewminate.com/maps-and-the-beginnings-of-colonial-north-america/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:46:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=101750 Exploring maps and mapmaking influenced the development of colonial North America. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for

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