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Resources from the Library

Exhibitions

• The Cultures and History of the Americas
• 1492 Exhibit: An Ongoing Voyage

Collections

• Kislak Collection
• Harkness Collection
• Waldseemüller Map
• Map Collections
• Map Collections: Discovery and Exploration
• Reclaiming the Everglades: Florida’s Natural History 1884–1934
• The webcast from transfer of the Waldseemüller Map to the LC

Lesson Plans

• Waldseemüller’s Map: World 1507
• Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
• The Huexotzinco Codex

Read More About It

• Bercht, Fatima, Estrellita Brodsky, John Alan Farmer, and Dicey Taylor, eds. Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1997.
• Coe, Michael D. The Maya. 7th Edition. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005.
• ——— and Mark Van Stone. Reading the Maya Glyphs. London: Thames and Hudson, 2005.
• De Vorsey, Louis, Jr. Keys to the Encounter: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992.
• Defoe, Daniel. A General History of the Pyrates. (1st edition, 1724.) London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1974.
• Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking, 2005.
• Dunkelman, Arthur, ed. The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007.
• Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. The Americas. New York: Modern Library, 2003.
• ———. Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
• Hébert, John R., ed. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992.
• Levenson, Jay A., ed. Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
• Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage, 2006.
• Martin, Simon, and Nikolai Grube. Chronicle of Maya Kings and Queens. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000.
• Miller, Mary Ellen and Karl Taube. The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
• Pagden, Anthony. Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, 1492–1830. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
• Schwartz, Seymour I and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. The Mapping Of America. Secaucus: Wellfleet Press, 2001.
• Sharer, Robert J. and Loa P. Traxler. The Ancient Maya. 6th Edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
• Thomas, Hugh. Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan. New York: Random House, 2004.

For Young Readers

• Bateman, Penny. Great Civilizations: Aztecs and Incas, AD 1300–1532. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988.
• Braman, Arlette N. Secrets of Ancient Cultures: The Maya. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
• Hakim, Joy. A History of US: The First Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. New York: Signet Classics, 1998.

Resources Outside the Library

• The Kislak Foundation
• Database of Maya vessels photographed by Justin Kerr, categorized by subject matter and more. This is an arm of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI).

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