A young girl raises a pre-Viking sword from a lake in Sweden.
Mappe-Monde ou Carte Genérale de la Terre Divisée en Deux Hémispheres, by Nicolas de Fer, first published in 1694.
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One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Lapham’s
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The World in Time
Jill Lepore
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States. More