Mapping Millennia of Cultural History

Can Pinturicchio Paint with All the Colors of the Wind?

Is this 15th-century fresco the first Western artistic depiction of Native Americans?  Pinturrichio executed this in 1494, just two years after Columbus's epoch-shaking voyage to the New World.

Happy Columbus Day

I'm terribly busy today, so I lamely give you my post from last year.  

History: How the Potato Changed the World

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to!

Columbus Day Reading

I always recommend one book, and, as it happens, so does the Insta-Prof: Samuel Eliot Morrison's excellent Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.

Happy Columbus Day! Read This

Samuel Eliot Morison's Pulitzer-winning biography of Columbus remains a classic. And it's good!