Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)

Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970 EAK
Call number: CD 970 EAK PART 2

Gagne, Tammy

Summary: In the years following Christopher Columbus's expedition, Europeans made homes for themselves in the Americas and pushed out the indigenous peoples already living there. Many popular stories about life in the early American colonies have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Colonization dives into the myths about colonization and brings the truth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 973.2 GAG

Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3

Levy, Janey

Summary: "It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. But it's not true. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. And second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 LEV

Dodds Pennock, Caroline

Summary: "A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PEN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PEN