The complete online text of Images from Motley's Netherlands by John Lothrop Motley.

John Lothrop Motley (15 April 1814-29 May 1877), historian, was one of the most prominent figures in the mid-nineteenth century "classic age" of historical writing in the United States. He was born into a mercantile family in Dorchester, Massachusetts. H...

The American historian and diplomat John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) is best known for his outstanding history of the Dutch struggle for independence. John Lothrop Motley was born in Dorchester, Mass., on April 15, 1814, to an old New England merchant fam...

John Lothrop Motley, Massachusetts-born historian of early modern Europe from the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain in the mid-sixteenth century until the eve of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), won overwhelming popular acclaim for his first major...

This issue, our World Class comes from a school called CBS Het Baken in the city of Zaandam in the Netherlands. About 70,000 people live in Zaandam, which is located across a river from the bigger city of Amsterdam (the capital city). ...

WHOEVER thinks 'euroscepticism' is a British invention, should brush up on his knowledge of European history. Certainly, the British invented the term itself, but the attitude has been around for much longer. For example Charles de Gaulle, a firm adversary of supranationalism, spoke...