This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetry project...
The Book of Mormon presents itself as a record of ancient prophets who lived in the Americas. It details two main civilizations, the Nephites and Lam...
Bartolomé de las Casas's *A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies* offers a harrowing and unflinching indictment of Spanish colonial practice...
This volume of the National Geographic Magazine, dated May 1896, offers a collection of articles focusing on various aspects of geography and explorat...
This is Christopher Columbus's first letter to the Spanish Crown, penned in 1493, offering a detailed account of his discovery of the “New World.” The...
'Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art' by William Henry Holmes is a comprehensive study of ceramic art in the Americas. Published by the Smithsonian's Dep...
This comprehensive history chronicles the experiences of Jewish people in the Americas, spanning from the earliest exploration days to the 20th centur...
This book contains the first-hand account of Amerigo Vespucci's four voyages to the Americas, which took place between 1497 and 1504. Vespucci's lette...
