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DAVIS-D1 ART "Rumor of Cannibals" by Dave D. Davis in Archaeology, January/February 1992, p. 49. Short article on the Carib Indians of the Bahamas (during Columbus' voyages).

DEBENHA NTS Frank Debenham, Discovery and Exploration: An Atlas-History of Man's Jouneys into the Unknown. Geographical Projects, London, 1960. 2pgs. Discusses different exploration ventures of Phoenecians, Vikings through to Magellan.

DEBRAY1 ART "La Mirada de los Vencidos" by Regis Debray, Escritor Francés. Article in Spanish from Ediciones E speciales (No. 12) Excelsior, Mexico, September 14, 1992. The author describes the way the Haitians see the discovery of the new world through their paintings and artwork.

DELANEY1 ART "Was Columbus a Whiner? You Could Look It Up," Paul Delaney in the New York Times (October 13, 1987). Recent finding about Columbus from the Archives of the Indies.

DIAMOND1 ART "The Arrow of Disease" by Jared Diamond in Discover (October 1992 vol. 13 Number 10 pp. 64-73). This article describes the transmission of diseases from animal to human and the evolution from a animal disease to a human one. Describes the effects of European diseases to the population of the Americas.

DIETZ01 ART "Ecoside: Legacy of the West" by D.T. Dietz in The Snapper (October 12, 1992 Vol. LXI No. 5 p. 2). This article discusses the lecture given by Kirkpatrick Sale at Millersville University on Columbus Day.

DOLLE-01 ART "Hennepin's Story of La Salle in Indiana" by Raymond F. Dolle in Indiana English, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 1988, pp. 4-7. Gives descriptions of La Salle's exploration and other aspect of history in the Midwest from Hennepin's Description of Louisiana.

DOLLE-02 ART "Captain John Smith's Satire of Sir Walter Raleigh" by Raymond F. Dolle. This paper talks about both John Smith's and Sir Walter Raleigh's approach to exploration in the New World throuhg Smith's satire of Raleigh's hunt for gold.

DOLLE-03 ART "The New Canaan, the Old Canon, and the New World in American Literature Anthologies" by Raymond F. Dolle in College Literature 17.2/3, June/October 1990, pp. 196-208. Reviews the selections from early American literature in the major anthologies, cri- tiques the traditional New England Puritan bias in the texts, and calls for a multicultural approach that includes Columbus and the other explorers during the Age of Discovery.

DOTTERER CWK "Christopher Columbus: Motivations to Reach the Indies by Sailing West," Janet L. Dotterer, a graduate paper written for Hi. 516, "The Age of Discovery," Millersville University.

DRAGO-01 ART Article by Tito Drago, Presidente del Club Internacional de Prensa, "Quinientos Años Despúes, España Puede Asumir el Papel de Rotula Integradora," from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales, México, August 12, 1992.

DRAGO-02 ART "Cinco Siglos Después Apenas nos Conocemos" by Tito Drago, Presidente del Club Internacional de Prensa. Article in Spanish from Ediciones Especiales (No. 12) Exclesior Mexico, D.F., September 14, 1992. As the title suggest, after 500 years we are just starting to get acquainted.

DRAGO-03 ART "Fin o Principio del Camino?" by Tito Drago, Presidente del Club Internacional de Prensa, Ediciones Especiales (No. 13), October 12, 1992. The countries that have benefitted, specifically Spain, from the discovery of the Americas. Instead of the great celebration that it once was, the discovery of the "New World" is stirring the conscience of many due to the discrimmination and injustice that continues to exist against the natives of the Americas.

DUMENE01 ART "Looking for Columbus" by Joanne E. Dumene. Five Hundred Magazine. April 1990, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 11-15. Dr. Steven Mitchell suggests another possibility, Conception Island, for Columbus' first landfall in the New World.

DUNN-01 ART "The Columbians" New York Times 1 pg. Short historical blurb about the U.S. Post Office's commemorative Columbus stamp set issued in 1892.

DURANT NTS William Durant The Reformation--A History of European Civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300-1564 Simon and Shuster, New York, 1957. 15pgs. Chapter XIII. Short synopsis of events occurring in the "known" world between 1300-1564.

DVORCHK1 ART "Goodbye, Columbus?" by Robert Dvorchak in Lancaster Sunday News, October 13, 1991, p. 2. Discusses the current Columbus debate showing both sides and says the Quincentenary should be used to tell the unvarnished story of Columbus.

ECKEL-01 SPK "What You Have Always Wanted to Know about Christopher Columbus" by Phyllis Eckelman. Presentation of research paper. Overview of Columbus, his voyages, and the quincentennial celebrations.

EIGELA01 ART "Islam Comes to Europe" Aramco World Magazine Sep/Oct '76 1 1/2pgs. Short history of Arab and other invader's influence on the Iberian peninsula. Arab influence.

EIGELA02 ART "Notes on Al-Andalus: A Search for Traces of Spain's Islamic Past" Aramco World Magazine Sep/Oct '76 6 1/2 pgs. Praises the Arab's influce on crafts and language, denigrates European influence. Also sort of a tour guide thing although he seems to detest tourists. Talks about things of interest that can be found in Valencia, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada, and Andalusia tracing them back to their Moorish roots.

EIGELA03 ART"The Golden Caliphate" Aramco World Magazine Sep/Oct '76 7 pgs. History of Caliphate in Cordoba.

EIGELA04 ART "The City of Al-Zahra" Aramco World Magazine Sep/Oct '76. About the splendor of Madinat-al-Zahr. Good article.

EIGELA05 ART "The Ripening Years" Aramco World Magazine Sep/Oct '76 4 1/2 pgs. History of Seville and its rulers.

EIGELA06 ART "The Final Flowering" Aramco World Magazine Sep/Oct '76 6pgs. History of splendor and downfall of Granada to Christians.

EIGELA07 ART "Escape from a Troubled World" by Tor Eigeland in Aramco World, Vol. 41, No. 5, September-October 1990, pp. 5-10. Discusses the past and present history of patios in Spain.

ELLIOTT NTS J.H. Elliott. The Old World and the New: 1492-1650 Cam- bridge University Press, 1970. 13pgs. Discusses the Europocentricity of our conception of history. Also discusses discovery's influence on Europe.

ENCYCLO NTS Duncan Castlereagh, "The Great Age of Exploration" The Encylcopedia of Discovery and Exploration. Doubleday Inc., Gordon City, NY 1973. Discusses how Columbus found America despite his mis- conceptions of global geography.

FAGAN-01 ART "A Clash of Cultures" Archaeology Jan/Feb '90 7 pgs. Reminder of pre-Columbian natives and their unfortunate plight. Expresses need to study and explore their history. Based on continued archaeological findings.

FAGAN-02 ART "Tracking the First Americans" by Brian Fagan. Archaeology, November/December 1990, pp. 14-20. Discoveries at archaeological site So Raimundo Nonato may date first Americans back 47,000 years but much precise scientific study is needed to either verify or disprove this fact.

FAGAN-03 ART "In the Footsteps of the Norse" by Brian Fagan in Archaeology Jan/Feb 1993 (Vol 46, No. 1, pp 14-18). Describes the Viking settlements at L'Anse-aux-Meadows in Newfoundland.

FAGAN-04 ART Article by Brain Fagan entitled "Flooding the Maya Heartland" Archaeology Magazine, September/ October 1992. Concern expressed over plans to create a dam on the Usumacinta River that separates Mexico and Guatemala. The river flows through a heavily forested region in the heartland of ancient Maya civilization. On its banks lie the great Maya centers at Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan.

FAGAN NTS Brian M. Fagan, The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America Thames and Hudson, London, 1987, 5pgs. Discusses the Europeans' populating America and their dealings with and misconceptions of American natives.

FERNAN01 ART "Pre-Columbian Surgery" Gramma Weekly Review no date 2 1/2 pgs. Pre-Columbian head surgery (trephination). Interesting.

FFA-BC NTS Felipe-Fernandez-Armesto. Before Columbus University of PA Press. Philadelphia, 1987. 6pgs. Discusses how Europeans viewed foreign peoples and lands prior to Columbus.

FFA-CC NTS Notes from Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1974.

FIELDS-1 ART "A Jubilee in the Making" by Roland C. Fields in International Columbian Quincentenary Alliance (1988, pp. 1-14). Reviews various events celebrating the discovery of America.

FOARD-01 ART "The Dawn of University History" by Douglas W. Foard, editor of OAH Magazine of History, in OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 5, No. 4, Spring 1991, p. 3. This a letter from the editor explaining the contents of this issue of OAH Magazine of History.

FOOTE-01 ART "Where Columbus Was Coming From" by Timothy Foote in Smithsonian, December 1991, pp. 28-41. Describes the Europe of Columbus' times which shows how Columbus came up with his ideas and actions (puts Columbus' life in context).

FOURIND1 ART "Study says all U.S. Indians descended from 4 women" in Lancaster New Era (Aug. 2, 1990, p.D-6). Interesting theory about origin of the American Indians. Must read.

FRAERMA1 ART "Colón: una Obsesión por Hallar los Montes de oro de Ofir y de Cipango" by Alicia Fraerman, Corresponsal de Ediciones Especiales De Excelsior en España. Article in Spanish from Ediciones Especiales (No. 9) Excelsior, Mexico, June 12 1992. Columbus' first voyage, not to interchange cultures, language or ideas, but for the sole purpose of gold and god.

FRAERMA2 ART "El Segundo Viaje Consolida la Presencia Española en América e Inicia el Declive de Colón" by Alicia Fraerman, Periodista Española. Article in Spanish from Ediciones Especiales (No. 12) Excelsior, Mexico, September 14, 1992. Lack of trust and confidence of the monarchs of Spain towards Christopher Columbus and his last voyage to the "New World".

FRAERMA3 ART "Colón Murió con la Gloria a Cuestas, Peleando por Recuperar sus Títulos," by Alicia Fraerman, from Ediciones Especiales (No. 13), Reforma 18-4 piso, Mexico, D. F., October 12, 1992. How the man who discovered the "New World", Christopher Columbus, died a sick man, without titles, honors and riches.

FRAERMA4 ART "Las Precauciones Confirman que Colón Sabía Adonde se Dirigía" by Alicia Fraerman, Corresponsal de Ediciones Especiales de EXCELSIOR (No. 8) Reforma 18-4 piso Mexico, D.F. May 12, 1992. In Spanish.

FUSON-CC NTS Robert H. Fuson, Translator The Log of Christopher Columbus International Marine Publishing Co. Camden, ME 1987. Discusses Columbus' log and its fate.

GALLI-01 ART "Highlights of the California Missions" by Mark Galli in Christian History Issue 35, (Vol. XI, No. 3). This article gives a brief historical sketch of the twenty-one missions in California.

GAMAREKI ART "Exhibitions are Planned on Titian and 1492 Art" New York Times 13 Oct 89. Art show announcement about Italian artists and the influence of the "Age of Discovery" atmosphere in which they lived.

GANNON01 SPK Michael V. Gannon. "Spanish Pathways: First Encounters in the Caribbean and the Southeaster United States" Delivered at the Phileas Conference in November 1989 at Ft. Lauderdale. 6pgs. Discus- sion of the good and bad points of the Europeans' advent to the New World.

GARCIA-1 ART "También hay Otros Centenarios" by Mario Garcia Guillen, Escritor y Profesor de Historia de la Universidad de Sao Paulo, Article in Spanish from Ediciones Especiales (No. 9) Excelsior, June 12 1992. This article is about other centenarians that have completed and expanded this 500 year celebration of the "New World".

GARCIA-2 ART "El 'Mea Culpa' de Leonardo Boff" by Mario Garcia Guillen, Escritor y Dramaturgo Brasileño. Article in Spanish from Ediciones Especiales (No. 12) Excelsior, Mexico, September 14, 1992. Boff is the author of "América Latina: de la Conquista a la nueva evangelización". Editora Atica, Sao Paulo, 1992. This article focuses on the hypocrisy of the Catholic church during the period of Colonization of Latin America.

GATES-01 ART "Who was Columbus?" by David Gates in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 29-31. Describes Columbus' life and personality, though he is a tricky man to pin down.

GELMAN01 ART "Columbus and His Four Fateful Voyages" by David Gelman in Newsweek, Special Issue, Fall/Winter 1991, pp. 39-46. A few adventurers may have landed before him, but Columbus's voyages were the ones that changed the world.

GEOG-INT ART Intelligencer Journal 16 Oct 89 2 1/4 pgs. Calls into question accepted landing places of Columbus. See BOWER 01 ART.

GERMAN01 NTS German Arciniegas America in Europe. Discusses the impact the discovery of America had on Europe.

GERMAN02 NTS German Arciniegas Amerigo and the New World: The Life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. A biography of Amerigo Vespucci.

GERMAN03 ART "German Arciniegas, La Pasion Americana." Entrevista a German Arciniegas (autor: Pilar Lozano) en America 92, Numeros 8 y 9, primer y segundo trimestre de 1987. Article appears in Spanish. Author talks about 500 years of American history.

GIBSON NTS Charles Gibson. Spain in America Harper and Rowe, Scran- ton, PA 17pgs. Discusses Spanish involvement in the Americas.

GILES-01 ART "How Did Native Americans Respond to C GILES-01 hristianity?" by Thomas S. Giles in Christian History Issue 35 (Vol. XI, No. 3). This article uses first-hand accounts to relate the story of some early conversions of the Native Americans to Christianity.

GONZALE1 ART "The New World will discuss process" by Alicia Maria Gonzalez, in The New World (Spring 1990, No. 1). From the inaugural edition of the magazine the director discusses the reason for a new journal from the Smithsonian Institution. Dedicated to the Americas.

GONZALE2 ART "La Olvidada Influencia Asi tica" by Alicia M. Gonzalez, Directora de la Oficina de los Programas Para el Quinto Centenario, Smithsonian Institution. Article in Spanish from Ediciones Especiales (No. 12) Excelsior, Mexico, September 14, 1992. Lack of information by the historians on the influence Asia had in the Americas, and the possibility that navigators from Asia had been to the "New World" prior to discovery of Columbus.

GONZALE4 ART "Quinto Centenario del Encuentro de dos Culturas y Primer Siglo del Paseo Colón," by Enrique Gonzalez Isunza, Ediciones Especiales (No. 13), October 12, 1992. Article in Spanish about activities planned in Mexico to celebrate Columbus.

GORNSCH1 ART "National History Day Commemorates the Columbian Quincentenary" by Lois Scharf and Cathy Gorn in OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 5, No. 4, Spring 1991, p. 49. Discusses National History Day and the broad number of topics available for study.

GOULD-01 ART "Heritage Gardens at National Zoo" by Edwin Gould, Ph.D. in The New World (Spring/Summer 1991, No. 2, p. 7). This article examines the transformation of the National Zoo from a zoological park to a BioPark, this puts the animals into their natural surroundings offering a holistic experience to the visitor.

GRAFF-01 ART "Columbus comes to Millersville" by Mary Graff in The Snapper, Millersville University's Student Newspaper, May 6, 1992, p. 9. For the upcoming year, Millersville University's academic theme will be 'The Encounter of Two Worlds'--based on Columbus' voyage to the new world and its consequences.

GRAHAM01 ART Ian Graham, "Exposing the Maya" Archaeology, September/October 1990, Vol.43, No. 5. Article about photographing the Maya ruins.

GRANBER1 SPK "The Americas that Might Have Been" by Julian Granberry. Research paper. This paper discusses the civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas and supposes what the world would be like today had Columbus not "discovered" America.

GRAY-01 ART "The Trouble with Columbus" by Paul Gray in Time, October 7, 1991, pp. 52-56. Explains both sides of the present argument about Columbus and the Quincentenary and suggests what the quincentennial should be utilized for.

GRAZIAN1 ART "Columbus and the Invention of Discovery" by Frank Graziano in Encounters, Autumn 1990, pp. 26-29. Discusses the views, ideas, and philosophy that Columbus held when he "discovered" the New World and how Columbus "invented" more than "discovered" the Americas.

GUERRA-1 ART Article by Francisco Guerra, Catedr tico de Historia de la Medicina de la Universidad de Alcala de Henares, "La Medicina Española Renacentista," from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales, México, August 12, 1992.

GUERRA-2 ART "Los Virus, Antes que las Armas, Diezmaron a los Indígena" by Francisco Guerra, Doctor en Medicina E Historia, España. Article in Spanish from Excelsior, Ediciones Especiales (No. 9), June 12, 1992. It was not so much the weaponry but rather the numerous diseases transmitted from these countries that destroyed the native populations.

GUERRA-3 ART "La Medicina Prehisp nica" by Francisco Guerra, Catedr tico de Historia de la Medicina de la Universidad de Alcal de Henares. Article in Spanish from Excelsior Ediciones Especiales (No. 12), Mexico, September 14, 1992. This article is about the influence prehispanic medicine has in today's world.

GUTREZ01 ART "Cristoforo Colombo and His Times" by: Alberto Gutierrez de la Solana, New York University, in: Five Hundred Magazine, Volume 1/No. 1; May/June 1989. This article explains Columbus' efforts to get sponsorship from a European country his vision of reaching the Indies from the West and how Ferdinand and Isabella, the Spanish monarchs, finally agreed to help Columbus.