History Content

This exhibit “examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors, and settlers from 1492 to 1600.” Divided into six sections–“What Came To Be Called ‘America’,” “The Mediterranean World,” “Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth,” “Inventing America,” “Europe Claims America,” and “Epilogue”–the materials include background essays, illustrations of objects such as Columbus’ Coat of Arms, and a 15-title bibliography. An interesting exhibition that consists mostly of secondary text.