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The Imperial Crown of Austria. Made in 1602, this crown has been used by the Habsburg monarchs of Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the kings of Hungary and Bohemia. The crown combines...

Captain John Smith (l. 1580-1631 CE) was an English explorer, soldier, author, and early governor of the Jamestown Colony of Virginia between 1607-1609 CE. Smith had served as a mercenary in his younger years and was well-versed in...

John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE) was an English merchant and colonist of Jamestown best known as the husband of Pocahontas (l. c. 1596-1617 CE). He is also known, however, for his successful cultivation of tobacco in Virginia which established...

A replica of the Crown of Saint Wenceslaus. The Bohemian Duke Wenceslaus I (r. 921-935) was given the honorary title of king by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 962-973) and made a saint. This crown was made in his honour...

Portrait of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649 CE). It was held in the Winthrop family until the 19th century CE when it was donated to the American Antiquarian Society...

Plaque commemorating the foundation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1623 CE in Gloucester, MA, placed in 1907 CE.

Reconstruction of an English colonist's home at Henricus Colony of Virginia, c. 1611 CE.

Site of Fort St. George, the fortified element of the early 17th-century CE Popham Colony (1607-8 CE) in what is now Phippsburg, Maine

Reconstruction of Mount Malady, the first English hospital built in North America c. 1611 CE, at Henricus Colony of Virginia. It was destroyed in the so-called Indian Massacre of 1622 CE when the Powhatan...

William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation is the first-hand account of the voyage of the ship Mayflower, founding of Plymouth Colony in modern-day Massachusetts, and the further colonization of the region...