América - History Lab

American Gothic

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:44:28 +0000

Chicago Art Institute, done in 1930 by Grant Wood.

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Atlantic slave trade

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:24 +0000

Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade – which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas – stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.

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Arriving in a “new world”

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000

Film clip detailing life in the "new world" begins at Ellis Island of the family's Mancuso. As soon as the disembark, the family realizes how it is quite different from what they had foreshadowed.
The film is in Italian and Sicilian.

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Francis Drake

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:40:53 +0000

During the late 15th century and throughout the 16th century, knowledge of terrestrial geography, both physical and human, made great strides. Christopher Columbus, Giovanni Caboto and Amerigo Vespucci explored North and South America and consigned them to history. Meanwhile, Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail across the Indian Ocean to Asia, while Ferdinand Magellan and Francis Drake, who completed the circumnavigation of the globe, confirmed the geographic position of North and South America, which meanwhile became part of maps and world maps, in ever-increasing numbers.

This century of exploration saw the first contacts between different peoples that brought alliances, trade, wars and slavery. These contacts laid the foundation for the modern globalized world.

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Cosme de Churruca’s expedition

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:54:49 +0000

Document that records the arrival of the brigantines Descubridor and Vigilante captained by Cosme Damián de Churruca, frigate captain, for the formation of a maritime atlas in North America. Before fighting in the battle of Trafalgar (1805), where he lost his life, this military man, scientist and sailor commanded some of the most important geographical expeditions to South America. This expedition consisted of two sections, one of which was to cover the islands and coasts of the Mexican Gulf and the other the rest of the continent, with the aim of forming the maritime atlas of North America. Carried out between 1792 and 1795, Cosme Damián Churruca was accompanied by José de Mazarredo and Joaquín Francisco Fidalgo.

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The transatlantic slave trade

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000

The European colonisers trafficked millions of slaves captured mainly in Africa in order to use them as labour for numerous activities. In this way, thousands and thousands of people were transported to various regions of the planet, as we know well in the case of the American continent. This resource provides access to a large database called the “Transatlantic Slave Trade Database”, which contains an immense amount of information on the development of slavery from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. It is a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States) and is the result of the efforts of scholars from different institutions, including historians, cartographers and slave trade specialists and researchers. The database itself is divided into various fields such as timelines, maps, 3D videos, essays and estimates and a detailed image bank.

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Ibero-American Heritage Digital Library “Manuscripts” Collection

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000

Content repository of digitised collections of manuscripts from libraries and archives in Latin America, as well as databases of digital collections. Here we can find more than 14,000 documents, especially correspondence. The vast majority are primary sources that can be of great use in the field of research and teaching.

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Map Collection of the Digital Map Library, a cartographic project of the National Library of Colombia

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:23 +0000

Collection “Maps” of the Mapoteca Digital, a cartographic project of the National Library of Colombia, where they have digitised the cartographic heritage referring to Colombia, although not exclusively (rest of the American colonies, global maps) from 1561 to the present day, being able to search by centuries

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Leiden University Collection “Maps and Atlases”

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:23 +0000

Leiden University Maps and Atlases Collection, a repository of over 100,000 maps collected and held by the Leiden University Library since its creation in 1587

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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:17 +0000

Collection of historical maps made by 19th and 20th century research on ancient geographic-historical spaces, from Antiquity, where modern and contemporary chronology maps stand out

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