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Exploring the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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• Altman, Ida. Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989
• Bedini, Silvio A., ed. The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia. 2 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992
• Bitterli, Urs. Cultures in Conflict: Encounters between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800. Translated by Ritchie Robertson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989
• Collier, George A., ed. The Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800. New York: Academic Press, 1982
• De Vorsey, Louis. Keys to the Encounter: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery. Washington: Library of Congress, 1992
• Harley, J.B. and David Woodward, ed. History of Cartography. Vol. I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987
• Hébert, John R. ed. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage. Washington: Library of Congress, 1992
• Hoxie, Frederick E., ed. Indians in American History: An Introduction. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1988
• Kamen, Henry A.F. Inquisition and Society in Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985
• León Portilla, Miguel, ed. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Translated. Boston: Beacon Press, 1962
• Lockhart, James. The Men of Cajamarca. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972
• Lockhart, James, and Stuart B. Schwartz. Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983
• Lunenfeld, Marvin, ed. 1492: Discovery, Invasion, Encounter; Sources and Interpretations. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath, 1991
• Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982
• Phillips, William D., Jr, and Carla Rahn Phillips. The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Connecting Kids

• Exploration and Explorers //memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_exploration.php
• Zoom into Maps //memory.loc.gov/learn/features/maps/index.html