Index for CIRS - Entries A-C
(Reprint permission granted)
1492 REV A review of Marvin Lunenfeld's 1492: Discovery, Invasion, Encounter; Sources and Interpretations by Thomas C. Tirado, Director of CIRS. 1991.
Click on title to obtain full text of article.AARONS01 ART "The Lucayans: The People Whom Columbus Discovered in the Bahamas" by George A. Aarons. Five Hundred Magazine. April 1990, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 6-7. Pertains to the lifestyle, culture, and society of the Lucayans who resided in the Bahamas in the Age of Discovery.
ADORNO01 ART "Early Peruvian recorded daily life under the rule of Spanish conquistadors" by Rolena Adorno in: The New World (Spring 1990, No. 1). An account of the Nueva Cronica of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (published 1615.)
ADORNO02 ART "The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: The Authority of Eyewitness Testimony in the Writing of History" by Rolena Adorno in The William and Mary Quarterly (April 1992, Vol. XLIX, No. 2, pp. 210-228). Compares writings of del Castillo, Cabeza de Vaca, and Las Casas, what influenced each one's view of the encounter, and how their accounts were received.
AGUILAR1 ART Article in Spanish by Lic. Agustin Aguilar, Antropólogo e Historiador Mexicano, "La Comunicación Entre los Mayas" from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales, México, D.F., August 12, 1992.
ALBION NTS Robert, G. Albion. Exploration and Discovery Macmillan Company, NY 1965 14 pgs. Discusses excitement and environment of the Age of Discovery and its impact on the Iberian Peninsula.
ALEXAN01 ART "Columbus to be remembered here" by Larry Alexander in Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, October 11, 1991, pp. B1-B2. Columbus to be remembered in Lancaster by statue; also relates 3 different views on the importance of the Quincentenary.
ALLARD01 ART "The Pluricultural Unity of America" Americas Mar/Apr '84 2pgs. Some general history about first settlements and Columbus. Reflections on a multicultural nation.
ANDREWS1 ART "America's Ancient Mariners" by Anthony P. Andrews in Natural History, October 1991, pp. 72-5. Discusses the extensive seagoing trade carried on by the Mayas and other natives of America in pre-Columbian times.
AODTIR01 BIB A lengthy bibliography by subject heading, compiled by T.C. Tirado, Director of CIRS. 18 pages.
AODTIR02 BIB A bibliography of Columbus and related topics in foreign languages, by T.C. Tirado, Director of CIRS.
AROHA-01 ART "Grand Regatta Columbus 92-Quincentenary" by Yole Aroha. Five Hundred Magazine. April 1990, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 16-17. Talks about the grand regatta of tall ships that is planned to sail across the Atlantic in 1992 commemorating Columbus' voyages.
ASCD-01 REV ASCD Columbian Quincentennial Network and Clearinghouse Newsletter, Sept., 1991. This newsletter contains an annotated bibliography of books related to the quincentenary that are suitable for school age children.
ASHMORE1 ART Book Review by Wendy Ashmore. Archaeology. July/August 1990, pp. 70-74. Review of six books pertaining to the Aztecs and their empire.
ATKINSON NTS William L. Atkinson. A History of Spain and Portugal Penguin Books, London 1960. 2pgs. Discusses key points in the history of the Iberian Peninsula starting with the reconquest.
AUCHIN01 ART "When Worlds Collide" by Kenneth Auchincloss in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 8-13. Celebrate it or bemoan it: the encounter between East and West had vast consequences that are still unfolding today.
AVILA-1 ART "Cinco Siglos de Imaginación Creadora" by Edgar Avila Echazu, Poeta y Ensayista Boliviano. Article in Spanish from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales (No. 9), México, June 12, 1992. The author discusses how the influence of the spanish language (Castellaño) and religion (Catholism), intertwined with that of the native indians of the Americas to create various cultures and traditions that are now part of our world.
AYLWIN-1 ART "500 Años del Encuentro Entre Dos Mundos" by Patricio Aylwin Azocar, Presidente de la República de Chile, from Ediciones Especiales, Excelsior (No. 8), Reforma No. 18-4 piso, Mexico, D. F., May 12, 1992. In Spanish.
AXTELL01 ART "The Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America" by James Axtell in Humanities, September/October 1991, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 12-18. Discusses the ethnic makeup and the lives of the people in post-Columbian America.
AXTELL02 ART "Columbian Encounters: Beyond 1992" by James Axtell in The William and Mary Quarterly, (April 1992, Vol. XLIX, No. 2, pp. 335-360). Provides an overview of the educational events and resources developed around the quincentennial. Touches on various view points which determined how the event would be commemorated.
AZUELA-1 ART "El V Centenario Desde México" by Arturo Azuela, Escritor Mexicano, Ediciones Especiales, Excelsior (No. 8), Reforma No. 18-4 piso, Mexico, D. F., May 12, 1992. In Spanish.
BAKER-01 ART "Quincentennial Fever" by James N. Baker in Newsweek, special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 79-80. A short calendar of quincentennial events that will be going on all over the world from October 1991 to December 1993.
BAQUERO1 ART "La mala imagen de Espana a finales del XIX" by Gaston Baquero in America 92 (IV Centenario del Descubrimiento de America), inSpanish.
BARNARD1 ART "A Year Long Voyage of Investigation", Lesson Plan by Mary Ann Barnard in OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 5, No. 4, Spring 1991, pp. 36-40. A lesson plan to get all disciplines in the school (mostly history) involved in an investigation into the voyages of discovery.
BEACH-01 ART "Indians discover Columbus '92 not to their liking" by: Mark Beach, Sunday New Staff Writer in: Sunday News, Lancaster (June 10, 1990, p. B1). Article about Indian reluctance to participate in celebrations. Group of Indians visited Mennonite center in Lancaster County and expressed their displeasure over planned celebration.
BECK-M01 ART "The Lost Worlds of Ancient America" by Melinda Beck in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 24-26. The New World was hardly new, civilizations had thrived here long before Columbus arrived. Brief descriptions of these civilizations.
BEGLEY01 ART "The First Americans" by Sharon Begley in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 15-20. If humans first crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago, then who built the 40,000-year-old sites that are scattered from the hills of Pennsylvania to the tip of Chile?
BERNABU1 ART "Del Centenario de Colon--al encuentro de dos mundos" by Salvador Bernabeu in America 92 (IV Centenario del Descubrimiento de America).
BIKAI-01 ART "Timelines: A Phoenician Fable" Archaeology Jan/Feb '90 5 1/2 pgs. Some archaeology but more historical arguments for pre-Columbian Atlantic voyages.
BINGHAM1 ART "Teaching the Columbian Quincentenary" by Marjorie W. Bingham in OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 5, No. 4, Spring 1991, pp. 5-6. Marjorie Bingham gives six major ways to celebrate the Quincentennial with some sensitivity within the school curriculum.
BLOCK-01 ART Quincentennial Bibliography by David Block in SALALM Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 3, December 1990, pp. 25-29. An annotated bibliography of monographic series concerning the Quincentenary.
BOALS-01 EXB "The Story of an American Heritage", Pamphlet from Chapel of the Family of Christopher Columbus and the Boal Mansion. Describes the mansion, chapel, history of the family and special events planned for the Quincentennial.
BON-DAV1 ART "Where Next, Columbus?" by Edith Bonnet and Russ Davidson in Encounters (Vol. 7, p. 27). This article examines the three projects in the "Where Next, Columbus?" exhibit at the Armillary Complex in Madrid, Spain.
BOWEN-01 ART "The Three Caravels and Their Return to America" by Sarah Bowen. Encounters: A Quincentenary Review, Summer 1990, pp. 28-30. Details of the replicas of the three caravels which will set sail from Spain in 1992 and of the route they will follow.
BOWEN-02 ART "The Buried Mirror" by Sarah Bowen in Encounters, Autumn 1990, pp. 15-16. A televised documentary series narrated by Carlos Fuentes examines present-day issues in Latin America and its underlying history, culture, and institutions.
BRAVO-01 ART "Extensa Bibliografia" by Ignacio Bravo in America 92 (IV Centenario del Descubrimiento de America).
BRICENO1 ART "La Hazaña de Colón" by Mario Briceño Perozo, Director del Archivo General de la Nación en Venezuela, from Ediciones Especiales, Excelsior (No. 8), Reforma No. 18-4 piso, Mexico, D. F., May 12, 1992. In Spanish.
BUISSER1 ART "Spain Maps Her 'New World'" by David Buisseret in Encounters (February 1992, No. 8, pp. 14-19). Discusses Spanish colonial cartography and the importance of map-making to the Old World. Also examines the difficulties involved in cartography at this time of exploration.
CADAVAL1 ART "Living Cultures of the Americas" by Olivia Cadaval, Ph.D. in The New World (Spring/Summer 1991, No. 2, p. 6). This article gives an overview of the Smithsonian's Office of Folklife's Program dealing with the impact on the historical development of the vernacular culture in the New World.
CAMOES LIT Portuguese quote, "And if there had been more of the more of the world they would have found it."
CARENAS1 SPK "The myth of Santiago de Espana and its repercussion in the Spanish Reconquest and in the New World" by Francisco Carenas. This paper examines the belief in the Santiago de Espa¤a and the repercussions this had to the Spanish in their establishing a national conscience.
CARRIL-1 ART "Américo Vespucio," by Ethel Carrillo, Periodista de EXCELSIOR. Ediciones Especiales (No. 13), October 12, 1992. The contribution of Vespucci to the discovery of the "New World".
CARVAL-1 ART Article in Spanish by Reynaldo Montefilpo Carvallo, Editorialista ULTIMA HORA/Paraguay, "La Economía del Indio Mexicano Precolonial, from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales, México, D.F., August 12, 1992.
CASO-01 REV "The Known but Unknown Pilot" by Adolph Caso in The World & I, (December 1991, Vol. 6, No. 12, pp. 394-401). Review and critique of John Dyson's book "Columbus: For Gold, God and Glory", and John Noble Wilford's book "The Mysterious History of Columbus: An Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy." See exerpt in DYSON-01 ART.
CASSON01 ART "Setting the Stage for Columbus" (Portuguese mariners sail down the coast of West Africa and find a way to return against foul winds.) by: Lionel Casson in: Archaeology (May/June 1990, pp. 50-55). This article tells about the explorations of Portuguese mariners down the coast of West Africa and the importance these ventures had on Columbus' voyage of discovery.
CASTAN-1 ART "Plantas Medicinales" by Dr. Hermilo Castañeda Velasco, Profesor e Investigador del Departamento de Historia y Filosofía de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM from Ediciones Especiales, Excelsior, (No.8) Reforma 18-4 Piso, Mexico, D.F. May 12, 1992. In Spanish.
CATZ-01 SPK "Christopher Columbus and Portugal" by Rebecca Catz. Paper presented by Rebecca Catz, in Washington, DC, on September 25, 1990. Conference title: "Spain and Portugal of the Navigators: the Iberian Peninsula Countries, Europe and New Horizons." This paper discusses Columbus's days in Portugal and the great influence they had of his discovery voyages.
CATZ-02 SPK "Christopher Columbus's Portuguese Family" by Rebecca Catz. Paper presented at the XIII Symposium on Portuguese Traditions at UCLA on April 21, 1990. This paper explains how Columbus was related to the Portuguese and his Portuguese family, although Columbus himself was not Portuguese.
CATZ-03 SPK "Christopher Columbus in Madeira" by Rebecca Catz. Paper presented at the Colloquium on Discovery and Travel Literature on 3 November 1988, at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. This paper discusses Columbus's relationship with the island of Madeira and dispels myths about Columbus's residence there.
CATZ-03P SPK "Christopher Columbus in Madeira" by Rebecca Catz. This contains identical information as CATZ-03 SPK but it is written in Portuguese.
CATZ-04 SPK "Columbus in the Azores" by Rebecca Catz. Paper delivered on April 22, 1989 at UCLA's XII Annual Sympoium on Portuguese Traditions. Discusses Columbus's episodes in the Azores during his discovery voyages.
CERIO-01 ART "Were the Spaniards That Cruel?" by Gregory Cerio in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 48-51. Granted, the conquistadors weren't saints, but blame some of that savage reputation on a smear campaign directed against the Spanish.
CHALWAS1 ART "5 Ways We Can Hail Columbus" by Joan R. Challinor and Wilcomb E. Washburn. Five Hundred Magazine. April 1990, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 9-10. Discusses 5 ways that the quincentennial can be used to improve scholarship and knowledge in the Americas.
CHALWAS2 ART "The Possibilities of the Columbian Quincentennial" by J. Challinor and Wilcomb E. Washburn in Ideas '92, A Journal to Honor 500 Years of Relations among Spain, Latin America and the US (Vol. I, No. 2, Spr. 1988, pp. 29-41). This article examines the importance of observing the Columbian Quincentennial and the significance that this event has meant to the world, and our understanding of it.
CHANDLR1 ART " ANCIENT MARINERS: Strong evidence of Andean-Mexican seagoing trade as early as 600 A.D." by David L. Chandler, The Boston Globe, Aug. 14, '95. Pp. 25-27. Archeologists studying the ancients empires of Central and South America have long noticed similarities in some pottery designs and food crops and wondered whether mariners from the Andean coast traded with their counterparts 2,000 miles to the north. Now, an MIT researcher says she has strong evidence they did.
CHAPIN01 ART "Contemporary Indians and the Quincentenary" by Mac Chapin. Encounters: A Quincentenary Review, Summer 1990, pp. 22-27. Chapin calls for a voice and vote for today's native Central American Indians.
CHAVEZM1 ART Article by Dra. Margarita Loera Chavez y Peniche y Dr. Javier Esteinou Madrid, Investigadores de la Dir. de Estudios Históricos de INAH, y del Dept. de Educación y Comunicación de la UAM-Xochimilco, "Cual es el Sentido de la Celebración del V Centenario?" from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales, Mexico, August 12, 1992.
CHAVEZ01 ART "Columbus Redux: Great Sailor's Exploits More Fiction than Fact", a review of The Conquest of Paradise by Kirkpatrick Sale in the Times of the Americas (4/1791, p. 12).
CHESSER1 ART "Columbus and the Renaissance" by: Mary Catherine Chesser in: Five Hundred Magazine, Volume 1/No. 1; May/June 1989. This article pertains to the sculpture, architecture, and painting that emerged during the Renaissance and Age of Discovery.
CODY-01 ART Washington Post 13 FEB 88 1 1/2 pgs. Portugal's self commendation of former golden years, trying to capitalize on celebrations at hand for present down time.
COE-01 ART "A Triumph of Spirit" by Michael D. Coe in Archaeology (September/October 1991, pp. 39-44). This article examines the Russian epigrapher Yuri Valetinovich Knorosov and his breakthrough in reading Mayan hieroglyphs and the importance of his work to Mayan scholars.
COHEN-01 ART "The Naming of America: Vespucci's Good Name" by Jonathan Cohen in Encounters (Vol. 7, pp. 16-20). This article discusses the arguments that some scholars have concerning the validity of Amerigo Vespucci, who he was, and the naming of the continent.
COHEN-C1 SPK "Conversion Among Puritans and Amerindians: A Theological and Cultural Perspective" by Charles L. Cohen, Paper presented at the Conference on "Puritanism in Old and New England", Millersville University, Millersville, PA, April 3-6, 1991. This paper exam ines the transculturation of the Amerindians in the assimilation into Puritan society in New England, and the effects of this new religious culture in their lives.
COLINA-1 ART "Invitación al Descubrimiento" by Cino Colina, Crítico Literario y Responsable de la Sección Internacional de GRANMA INTERNACIONAL/CUBA, from Ediciones Especiales, Excelsior (No. 8) Reforma 18-4 piso Mexico, D. F. May 12, 1992. In Spanish.
COLLIS NTS John Steward Collis. Christopher Columbus. Stein and Day, New York, 1977 9 pgs. Covers Columbus' life and the social/scientific evnironment which spurred him to explore.
COPE-01 ART "1492: Encounter of Two Worlds," An Undergraduate Quincentenary Course at Brown University, by Professors R. Douglas Cope and Thomas E. Skidmore. Design, rationale and outline of course.
COUGHLN1 ART "16th-Century de Soto Expedition Offers Scholars a Look at Earliest Encounters Between 2 Civilizations" by Ellen K. Coughlin in The Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. A8, A10-A11. Historians and archaeologists track Spanish explorer's contacts with native societies of Southeast.
COWLEY01 ART "The Great Disease Migration" by Geoffrey Cowley in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 54-56. It wasn't swords or guns that devastated the native Americans; it was the germs the Europeans carried.
CROSBY01 NTS Alfred W. Crosby "The Columbian Voyages, The Columbus exchange and their Historians." American Historical Association, Essays on Global and Comparative History 1987 2 pgs. Discusses bardic writers fo history (contemporaries of Columbus and how they viewed the events).
CROSBY02 SPK Alfred W. Crosby "Rethinking the Encounter: New Perspec- tives on Conquest and Colonization, 1450-1550" Encuentro Quarterly, Vol. IV No. 2 University of New Mexico, Summer of 1988 5pgs. A discussion of two points. The egocentric and narrow minded view our European predecessors had of their encounter and conquest of the New World and its inhabitants, and the educated view we should take con- cerning the encounter.
CURRY-01 ART "Teaching the Quincentenary" by Glenn T. Curry. Encounters. Spring 1990, pp. 23-24. Gives an example of how to teach students about Columbus and the Age of Discovery so they better understand the Quincentenary.