They're not just weekend warriors. In a move that would create the first militia on the North American continent, the Massachusetts General Court in Salem issued an order on Dec. 13, 1636 ...

The BnF Research Library is composed of 4 sites in the Paris region (Richelieu, Arsenal, Opéra and François-Mitterrand) and of one site in Avignon. You can access our collection of over 40 million ...

Gallica is one of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, ...