Lectures tagged "Christopher Columbus"

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A Voyage Long and Strange: From Columbus to Plymouth Rock
Tony Horwitz
May 14, 2008
01:00:28
Tony Horwitz discusses A Voyage Long and Strange, in which he attempts to understand what happened in the Americas between Columbus' arrival and the Mayflower's landing on Plymouth Rock.
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Charles Mann on The Americas Before Columbus
Charles Mann
February 20, 2008
00:52:51
Charles Mann presents compelling evidence that the earliest Americans built and occupied cities that rivaled anything found in Europe at the time, in the book 1491.