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History of the Americas

	A small site on The History of Canada for now includes only two books — a biography of the explorer Alexander Mackenzie, and a history of Esquimalt Naval Base — but by and by there should be more on its way. [ 8/7/17: 511 pages of print presented in 39 webpages; 22 images, 4 maps ]
$[A map of roughly the central half of the American continent, from the present S border of Canada in the north to Paraguay in the south; patterned with a checkered design alternating squares with a crenellated tower and squares with a lion rampant. The image is further explained on the text of this webpage, and serves as the icon on my site for Bourne\'s book, \'Spain in America\'.]$	Edward Gaylord Bourne's *Spain in America* recounts the Spanish voyages of exploration and the early colonization of America; and lays out the Spanish colonial system that at one time governed more than half of South America and a large part of North America as well. [ 366 pages of print presented in 26 webpages; 2 maps ]
	Luis Galdames' History of Chile — an English translation of the Chilean historian's Estudio de historia de Chile — is an excellent survey of 400 years of that country's history, written with love of his country and as much impartiality as he could muster: it covers the initial European discovery, exploration and conquest, then the political and military developments of course, but also the intellectual and religious currents, and, to a lesser degree, economic and cultural aspects as well. [ 544 pages of print presented in 33 webpages; 20 photos, 4 maps ]
	History of Brazil includes a well-known history of Brazil — a full-length book by a 20c Brazilian author — but also in-depth accounts by a single author (a very frequently cited authority) of the Dutch exploration and colonization in the north and northeastern regions of the modern country: Bahia, Pernambuco, Maranhão, Pará. [ 10/27/11: 414 pages of print presented in 23 webpages ]
	William Spence Robertson's Life of Miranda, though strictly speaking not history but biography, cannot avoid telling the story of Venezuela's struggle for independence. [ 603 pages of print presented in 27 webpages; 16 photos, 5 maps, 17 engravings ]
	Guillermo Antonio Sherwell's laudatory Antonio José de Sucre details for a North American readership the young general's military and political battles for the independence of South America. [ 236 pages of print presented in 23 webpages; 9 photos, 1 map ]
	Many journal articles onsite, while dealing with Latin America and the Caribbean, also relate to the United States: nearly all of them are collected in my American History Notes section. These, however, are not: St. Brendan's Explorations and Islands The Dutch and Cuba, 1609‑1643. North Carolina's Troops in South America: "The Lost Battalion". White Settlement in Saba Island, Dutch West Indies [ 4 journal articles: 82 pages of print ]
	Inevitably, the bulk of this site will still be about the history of my own country, the History of the United States. My interests seem to be moving me more toward the frontier period — 17c thru 20c depending on what part of the country! — but I've tried to establish a balance, so there's material on the Revolutionary War, the War Between the States, World War I and World War II, railroad history and a book on President Wilson, a fair amount of 20c naval history, a subsite on Catholic history but also the diary of a Mormon pioneer: lots of stuff, both primary sources and secondary, and being added to from time to time. You'll find a full breakdown on the linked orientation page, naturally. [ 8/31/24: 90 books; plus other items — 38,425 pages of print presented in 6200 webpages with 1698 photos, 307 maps & plans, 572 other illustrations ]

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