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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering...

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...

In 1492: The Relativity of Tomorrow, Dante Vicente Creelson—a NOAA scientist and former Navy pilot—vanishes in a storm off the Atlantic. Instead of drowning in 1992, he awakens in 1482 on the shores of the Caribbean, centuries before Columbus arrives. Armed with fragments of modern science and bound by the wisdom of the Taíno, Maya, Inca, Aztec, and Rarámuri, Dante faces a choice: Survive as a castaway in a world of stone and spear. Or forge a pan-American alliance strong enough to meet the future head-on.

Ask anyone about the significance of the year 1492, and you're almost certain to hear something about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World. But there is also a perspective on 1492 far different than the one most of us know-one that is more complete and complex. A 1492 when there was no country called Spain and no language called Spanish.

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United...

Unabridged, 15 hours Read by TBD A mesmerizing, new account of the great explorer from the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Marco Polo...

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history Born at a time when Christianity...

Livingston argues that the English lens through which the war has been viewed has led historians to define it in terms of English interests (most famously, the claim of the English Plantagenet king Edward III to be the rightful king of France), and that the events collectively labelled the ‘Hundred Years War’ are best seen as a sequence of steps in France’s struggle to define itself as a nation. For much of the period, France’s primary rival was indeed England. But it was by no means the only combatant. Burgundy stood in its way, too, as did Brittany, Flanders, Navarre and other rival powers.

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A companion book for young listeners based on 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, the groundbreaking best seller by Charles C. Mann.

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On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed across to what he assumed was the coast of India. According to the popular version of the story, amazed at the sight of ships and men of such unfamiliar appearance, the native people of the island plunged into the clear waters of the western Atlantic, expertly swimming or aboard dugout canoes, and came out to greet the strangers.

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the 20th century. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism.

A morning of mist. A single foot on sand. On 12 October 1492, a navigator who thought he’d found Asia set a map tilted on its axis. Two worlds met without a common language. The encounter that began with curiosity—gifts, glances, traded food—unfolded into an exchange that remade ecosystems, empires, and memory. Nothing about that shoreline was tidy. This short, sharp history follows that day as an origin story and a warning. It moves from decks slick with salt to the quiet rooms of archives, from Taino canoes to Spanish logs, asking when discovery becomes dominion and how the first ...

American History, Volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history. The volume features illuminating stories of people from well known presidents and generals, to lesser-known men and women who struggled under slavery and other forms of oppression to make their place in American life.

Originally published as a section of the author’s larger “Conversations in Early American History: 1492-1763,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, clearly explains, in easy-to-follow question-and-answer format, the key events of American history from Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World (1492) to the signing of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War (1763). CONTENTS 1. Christopher Columbus 2. Jamestown 3. The House of Burgesses 4. The Pilgrims 5. Bacon’s Rebellion 6. The Salem Witch Trials 7. The Thirteen ...

Mary Kitzmiller from Kemp TX. Mary has competed in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as Road To The Horse (wildcard) & multiple Mustang Makeover events. Mary also does demonstrations and clinics all over the country. This time we discuss how to teach a horse to cross bridges confidently.Host: Coach JennTodays contributor: Mary Kitzmiller,Horses In The MorningSponsored by Horse & Rider On DemandSupport for this episode provided by HRN AuditorsListen to more podcasts for horse people at Horse Radio Network

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Seville, 1492. As Spain celebrates the fall of Granada and the Edict of Expulsion is proclaimed, a gifted converso who speaks several tongues keeps the Shema hidden in his breath. At home he is Yosef; in the records he appears as Luis de Torres. His command of Hebrew, Arabic, and Castilian earns him a berth on Columbus’s expedition from Palos de la Frontera—caught between whispered prayers and the promise of gold. The Forgotten Interpreter is a work of historical fiction inspired by the real converso who sailed on the first Columbian voyage. From Sevillian courtyards to the decks of the...

Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. It spans centuries and continents; from the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492, it navigates miracles and massacres, wandering, discrimination, harmony and tolerance, to the brink of the 20th century and, it seems, a point of profound hope. It tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; and an opera composer in 19th-century Germany.