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General Research Resources

Argos
Argos is a limited-area search engine. In other words, it is a search engine that will only search out sites that have something to do with the ancient and medieval past. It is created and maintained by a team of scholars who maintain specialized link pages.
( http://argos.evansville.edu )
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Lists, where known, all major online texts in a series of annotated index pages.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html )
Creative Impulse: Exploration
A guide to Internet resources on the age of exploration.
( http://history.evansville.net/explorat.html )
Medieval Sourcebook: European Expansion and Exploration

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1z.html )
Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial Latin America

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook08.html )
Conquistadors

( http://questia.com/popularSearches/conquistadors.jsp )
Slave Trade

( http://questia.com/popularSearches/slave_trade.jsp )
The World Imagined

Medieval Sourcebook: European Expansion and Exploration

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1z.html )
Ptolemy [Secondary Discussion/Image]

( http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/ptolemy.html )
The World Discovered

Columbus Navigation Homepage
Focuses on Columbus technical methods.
( http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/index.htm )
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Literally thousands of articles on Columbus, and all searchable.
( http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/ )
Columbus Navigation Homepage

( http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/index.htm )
Confrontation of Cultures

Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial Latin America

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook08.html )
Rabbit in the Moon: Mayan Glyphs and Architecture

( http://www.halfmoon.org/ )
Library of Congress: 1492 Exhibit

( http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html )
The First Americans [Secondary Discussion]

( http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/BEGLEY01.ART )
Inca Creation Myth [Secondary Discussion]

( http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Ancient_religions/South_america/inca_creatio... )
Jacques Cartier: Explorer of the St. Lawrence [Secondary Discussion]

( http://collections.ic.gc.ca/stlauren/hist/hi_cartier.htm )
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of the Black Atlantic World

( http://www.unc.edu/depts/afriafam/AnniversaryConference/baw.htm )
The World Market and Commercial Revolution

Trade Products in Early Modern History

( http://www.bell.lib.umn.edu/Products/Products.html )
Summary of Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/wallerstein.html )
The World Transformed

The Mercator Conformal Projection

( http://www.ualberta.ca/~norris/navigation/Mercator.html )
Colonial North America

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook07.html )
Relevant Research Journals

Athena Review
Journal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration.
( http://www.athenapub.com/ )
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
This journal is devoted to publishing articles by new scholars, either working toward doctoral degrees or having completed such work within the previous three years.
( http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmrs/publications/comitatus/comitatu.htm )
European History Quarterly
Resource for research on European history, publishing articles by eminent historians on a range of subjects from the later Middle Ages to post-1945.
( http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0031.html )
European Review of History
"An international journal covering European history of all centuries and subdisciplines. It aims to create a forum for ideas from across Europe, to encourage the most innovatory research, to make diverse historiographies better known and to practically assist exchanges between young historians."
( http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13507486.html )
The World in the News

Yahoo
Search for "Columbus" or "Conquistadors" in the news.
( http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/options?p= )
CNN
Search for "Columbus" or "Conquistadors" in the news.
( http://www.cnn.com/ )
PBS
Search for "Columbus" or "Conquistadors" in the news.
( http://www.pbs.org/search/ )
Library of Congress Headings

Arizona State University
Search for related library books and documents using these subject headings:
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Europe -- History -- 1492-1517
  • Europe History 1517-1648
  • America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
  • Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547

( http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/d )
Library of Congress
Search for related library books and documents using these subject headings:
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Europe -- History -- 1492-1517
  • Europe History 1517-1648
  • America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
  • Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547

( http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First )
your university library
Search for related library books and documents using these subject headings:
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Europe -- History -- 1492-1517
  • Europe History 1517-1648
  • America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
  • Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547

( http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/Academic_main.html )







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