Christopher Columbus

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1595589856

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Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus by James W. Loewen Pdf

Some myths don't die, and lies are still being told about Christopher Columbus: that he 'discovered' the Americas, that the land was sparsely populated by native people, that those people were primitive and that they submitted to Columbus's 'God-like' authority. Loewen disproves the myths about Columbus still enshrined in American textbooks with quotations from primary source material that sets the record straight. The poster and accompanying 48-page paperback book sum up the mistellings - and reveal the real story - in a graphically appealing and accessible format.

Author : Bonnie Bader,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698159501

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Who Was Christopher Columbus? by Bonnie Bader,Who HQ Pdf

Learn all about Christopher Columbus' early life at sea, which led him to seek fortune by sailing west in hopes of creating new trade routes with the Indies. Kids will read about why he called himself the "Great Admirald of the Seas" and learn of all his struggles to find finacial support for his voyage.

Author : Rafael
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548738123

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Christopher Columbus the Hero by Rafael Pdf

Once upon a time, Columbus was a hero... Sadly, that's not the case today: Some people don't even know who he was, or what he did; while others claim he was a villain, and are advocating for the abolition of Columbus Day and everything he represented. Accusations vary from Columbus being a racist, a rapist, a genocidal maniac, and even that he ran a child sex slave ring. The question is, are these allegations true? And, where are the scholars correcting Columbus' record? Unfortunately, some of the misinformation out there comes from "scholars;" and even those who defend Columbus, won't address the actual story either. In this book, the reader will learn who modern history revisionists claim Columbus was, and what he did, vs. the actual historical accounts, coming from the mouths of those who knew him well, and wrote about them for us. The conclusion will be inevitable, that is, Columbus was a Hero, and his story and legacy need to be rediscovered again today.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781430130390

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A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus by David A. Adler Pdf

"Well-produced and appealing readalong...expressive narration and appropriate music and sound effects...Sure bet for story time or home." - Booklist

Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : America
ISBN : 1454912596

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Did Christopher Columbus Really Discover America? by Emma Carlson Berne Pdf

Why did Columbus want to reach the New World--and was he the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean? What was life like on one of his ships? What did America look like before Columbus arrived? How did Columbus treat the native people? The engaging story of Columbus's voyage and the effect his arrival had on the native people will fascinate kids.

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544327

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Columbus by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic. In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620974551

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Pdf

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." —Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective." What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537584790

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Christopher Columbus by Hourly History Pdf

Christopher Columbus Everyone knows who Christopher Columbus is, and everyone knows what he discovered and what he is famous for. Who, really, is this man, so shrouded in mystery? Columbus would tell you he was inspired by God to make his voyages, and it takes a brave soul indeed to sail out into the ocean blue where no one has gone before. Inside you will read about... - Early Life - The Silk Road and Beyond - Columbus' Quest for a Voyage - First Voyage - Second Voyage - Third and Fourth Voyages - Governor of the Indies And much more! In this eBook, you'll find out all about this most remarkable of men. You will uncover why he thought it so important to never give up on his dream, and how impossible his struggles became with each voyage he made. What was it like to sail over the edge of the ocean? This was a voyage not just anyone could undertake. It was the bravery and the brilliance of a man like Christopher Columbus who would make his dream come true and inspire a world to follow him.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807759486

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Teaching What Really Happened by James W. Loewen Pdf

“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.

Author : William D. Phillips,Carla Rahn Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052144652X

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The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips,Carla Rahn Phillips Pdf

When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened a period of European exploration and empire building that breached the boundaries of those isolated worlds and changed the course of human history. This book describes the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th aniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Since ancient times, Europeans had dreamed of discovering new routes to the untold riches of Asia and the Far East, what set Columbus apart from these explorers was his single-minded dedication to finding official support to make that dream a reality. More than a simple description of the man, this new book places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history. Columbus's story is not just the story of one man's rise and fall. Seen in its broader context, his life becomes a prism reflecting the broad range of human experience for the past five hundred years. Respected historians of medieval Spain and early America, the authors examine Columbus's quest for funds, first in Portugal and then in Spain, where he finally won royal backing for his scheme. Through his successful voyage in 1492 and three subsequent journeys to the new world Columbus reached the pinnacle of fame and wealth, and yet he eventually lost royal support through his own failings. William and Carla Rahn Phillips discuss the reasons for this fall and describe the empire created by the Spaniards in the lands across the ocean, even though neither they, nor anyone else in Europe, know precisely where or what those lands were. In examining the birth of a new world, this book reveals much about the times that produced these intrepid explorers.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512407723

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A Journey with Christopher Columbus by Stuart A. Kallen Pdf

Uses primary source documents to follow Christopher Columbus on his journeys to the New World.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000012952243

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Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : John Henrik Clarke
Publisher : Eworld
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1617590304

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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust by John Henrik Clarke Pdf

Originally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011557550

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Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Ruth Belov Gross
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 0590098918

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A Book about Christopher Columbus by Ruth Belov Gross Pdf

With the support of the Queen of Spain, Christopher Columbus and his three ships set out into the unknown to find a shorter sea route to the Indies.