DALA: Digital American Literature Anthology
Edited by Michael O'Conner, Millikin University
Resources for Lecture Building and Extended Study - Copyrighted Materials
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National Humanities Center, Toolbox Library, "Exploration"
Columbus Letter from the Fourth Voyage
Smith's General History of New England, Virginia, and the Summer Isles
Captain John Smith's General History of New England
John Smith's Description of New England (1616)
Cabeza De Vaca Biography at PBS
Society of Early Americanists, Teaching Resources
Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Google Books: The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Web site)
Multimedia
American Passages, Unit 2: Exploring Borderlands
America's History in the Making, Unit 2: Mapping Initial Encounters
Electronic Resources in the Public Domain in the USA
Project Gutenberg: The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci by Clements R. Markham
Project Gutenberg: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de las Casas
Project Gutenberg: Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings by MacNutt
Project Gutenberg: The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Volume 2 by Washington Irving. 1828
Project Gutenberg: The Life of Columbus by Edward Everett Hale, 1891
Project Gutenberg: The Discovery of America by John Fiske, 1892
Project Gutenberg: Voyages of Samuel De Champlain, Volume 1 by Samuel de Champlain
Project Gutenberg: French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson, 1905
Project Gutenberg: The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by E. Boyd Smith, 1906 (children's picture book)