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A Province Changes Hands: Maryland Contested
How a Catholic proprietor's toleration act was repealed by the Protestants it sheltered and restored as the price of his province: 1645 to 1657
Freeborn John: Lilburne, the Levellers, and the Argument That Would Not Die
How the man every government of his lifetime imprisoned lost the fight over who should govern and left his mark on how a man is tried: 1645 to 1657
Certainty for Conjecture: Malthus and Britain's First Census of 1801
How Richard Price's gloomy guess, Malthus's anonymous essay, and two failed harvests brought Britain to count its people a decade after America: 1789 to 1801
The Altar and the Covenant: Charles I, Archbishop Laud, and the Breaking of the Church
How a programme of order and ceremony imposed from above broke the church in three kingdoms and put an archbishop at the bar: 1632 to 1644
Popish Soap: Charles I, and the Westminster Soap Monopoly
A royal patent on the most common necessity of life, the laundresses who judged it and found it wanting, and the Parliament that taxed it instead: 1632 to 1644
The Longest Occupation and the Narrowest Vote: New York's Road to Statehood
How seven years of British occupation made New York a self-reliant state, and why it joined the Union at Poughkeepsie by three votes: 1776 to 1788
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