Early Modern History

An Accursed Family: the Scottish Crisis and the Creation of the Black Legend of the House of Stuart, 1650–1652

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Thomas Cogswell, professor of history at UC Riverside reconstructs the polemical campaign waged in the early 1650s by John Milton and other republicans to destroy the personal and political reputation of Charles II. This is part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series at The Huntington.