Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas (Financial institution Avenue Faculty of Training Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))

Many generations of American schoolchildren had been taught that Columbus found America, and a vacation reminds us each October. However historic investigation lately has proven us in any other case. There’s proof that adventurers, explorers, merchants, and nomads from numerous components of the globe set foot on American soil lengthy earlier than 1492. And expeditions that landed within the Americas reported individuals already residing there—indicating that America had been “found” earlier than.

Russell Freedman brings his legendary abilities as researcher and storyteller to this recent and intriguing have a look at the American previous. Colourful legends and first-person accounts are woven into the riveting narrative, which additionally illuminates the way in which historians and mapmakers have gathered, evaluated, and recorded data all through the ages.