Historical Themes

‘We come in peace…’ — Histories of the Americas
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 28 – September 5, 2004




Historical Themes
Alamo
Alves de Lima e Silva, Luís
American Civil War
American Indians
Americas
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Blacks –
United-States
Boone, Daniel
Bourgeoys, Marguerite
Brazil
Burle Marx, Roberto
Cabral, Pedro Álvares
Caminha, Pero Vaz de
Canada
Chile
Colonization
Cook, James
Coureurs des bois
Cuba
Filles du roi
Fur Trade
Havana – Architecture
Hegel, Georg Wilhem Friedrich
Hudson River School
Humboldt, Alexander von
Kane, Paul
León Pinelo, Antonio de
Maquinna (Muquinna)
New France
Nootka Sound
Riel, Louis
Saint James the Greater
Scott, Thomas
Slavery
Social Microbrigades
War of the Triple Alliance
West, Benjamin
List of Works
Here is a selection of websites relating to the historical themes referenced in the works of the exhibition ‘We come in peace...’ – Histories of the Americas. These sites are full of information – but, more importantly, they encourage the visitors of the exhibition to reflect on the many ways in which history can be approached.

The Media Centre of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal assumes no responsability for the content of external links.


Alamo
Alamo, The
Encarta Encyclopedia
Battle of the Alamo – Abstract

The Alamo
Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Austin
Website on the Alamo

Remember the Alamo
PBS (American Experience series)
Presentation of the documentary

Alamo Plaza
Heart of San Antonio, San Antonio
Virtual tour of the Alamo Plaza

A Brief History of an Old Building: The Alamo
University of Texas, Institute of Texan Cultures
History of the building

Other links of interest:

Remember the Alamo
HistoryChannel.com
Presentation of the documentary

The Alamo (É.-U., 2004)
The Alamo official movie website

The Alamo (É.-U., 2004)
Voir.ca
Comments on The Alamo movie (Français)

Souviens-toi d’Alamo!
Mango (Autres Mondes)
Youth Literature

Oublier Alamo – Text by Xavier Daverat
Le Passant ordinaire, no 37 (nov./déc. 2001)


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Alves de Lima e Silva, Luís (Duke of Caixa, Patron of the Brazilian Army)
See also Brazil
Men and women of determination – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva
Colégio Militar de Porto Alegre
Biographical summary


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American Civil War
See also Canada
See also Blacks – United-States
Civil War
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com
Origin of the conflict and the major events – Introduction

Selected Civil War photographs
The Library of Congress, Washington
Online visual documentation

WWW.CivilWar.com
American Civil War website

The American Civil War Homepage
University of Tennessee
Portal

Doin’t the time warp: Civil War re-enacting and the war for the American past (by Gordon L. Jones)
DGFA (German Ass. for American Studies) 47th Annual Conference, Dresden, June 14, 2000
For an abstract see: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ilwam/dgfa/home.htm

Other link of interest:

The Civil War (Ken Burns)
PBS
Presentation of movie


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American Indians
See also Canada
Indians of North America
California State University, Long Beach
Portal

American Indian Resources
Will Karkavelas, Osaka University
Portal See in particular Native American Culture – Stereotypes
Native American History

The Captivity Myth in American Art
The English Department, Choate Rosemary Hall School, Wallingford
Stereotypes in art – American Indian as attacker (and even as sexual predator)

Male Sexualities in Early Latin America
College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside
Synopsis of a conference organized by the American Society for Ethnohistory (Annual Conference 2003)

Other links of interest:

Pensionnats indiens : l’enfance déracinée (1950-2004)
Archives de Radio-Canada

See also A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools
CBC Archives

Les droits territoriaux des autochtones (1763-2002)
Archives de Radio-Canada


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Americas
L’Amérique
Mémo, le site de l’Histoire
File on the Americas


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Battle of the Plains of Abraham
See also Canada
See also New France
See also West, Benjamin
Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de, Marquis de Montcalm
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary

Wolfe, James
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary

Plains of Abraham website
The National Battlefields Commission, Government of Canada
SeeOur parc – Battles of 1759-1760


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Blacks – United-States
See also Canada
See also Slavery
African American Culture Resources
William Karkavelas, Osaka University
Portal See in particular African American Culture – Stereotypes
African American History – Stereotypes

African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
The Library of Congress, Washington

North American Slave Narratives
Academic Affairs Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Slavery and the Portrayal of African Americans in Art
The English Department, Choate Rosemary Hall School, Wallingford
Stereotypes in art

Other links of interest:

Blacks – Canada

Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Virtual exhibition

Africville : expropriation des Noirs néo-écossais (1840-1969)
Archives de Radio-Canada

See also:

Africville : Expropriating Nova Scotia’s blacks
CBC Archives

The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Virtual exhibition


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Boone, Daniel
William Ranney, Boone’s First View of Kentucky, 1849
California State University, Bakersfield

Daniel Boone : Myth and Reality in American Consciousness
American Studies, University of Virginia


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Bourgeoys, Marguerite
Bourgeoys, Marguerite
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary

Musée Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum – Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours Chapel

La « médaille » du baron de Fouencamps et l’iconographie de la Vierge à la Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours : un objet exceptionnel
Robert Delorme and others, Université du Québec à Montréal
Includes some excerpts from the writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys.

La Congrégation de Notre-Dame
Congrégation de Notre-Dame website, Montréal
SeeMarguerite Bourgeoys

To know more about the work of the female religious communities in New France, see:

L’œuvre des Ursulines et des Hospitalières en Nouvelle-France
Archives Radio de Radio-Canada


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Brazil
See also Americas
Brésil – Histoire
Encyclopedie Yahoo!

L’histoire du Brésil
Ici-Brasil.com – Le site francophone du Brésil

Brazil
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com

Birth and Growth of Colonial Brazil: 1500-1750
(Excerpt from the first chapter of Thomas E. Skidmore Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, Oxford University Press, 1999, 254 p.)
Brazil-Brasil.com

Brazil
Federal Research Division, U.S. Library of Congress (Country Studies/Area Handbook Series)
Detailed study
For Alves de Lima e Silva, Luís
See http://countrystudies.us/brazil/12.htm

The Letter of Caminha: The Adventure of the Discovery
Clarissa Carvalho, Auburn University (student project)
See in particular Caminha's letter (English, Portugues)


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Burle Marx, Roberto
Roberto Burle Marx
Encyclopédie Yahoo!

Roberto Burle Marx
Gardenvisit.com
Biographical summary

Landscape + Architecture about Almost Nothing
Serious Real – The Anti-Journal, vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 2002)
Comments on his philosophy and his aesthetics
SeeBurle Marx Time

Burle Marx
DesignCommunity.com
For information on his life and work… (Portugues, click on inicio)

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
Maria-Brazil.org
Some photographs of his house and gardens


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Cabral, Pedro Álvares
See also Brazil
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Encyclopédie Yahoo!

Cabral, Pedro Alvares
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com


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Caminha, Pero Vaz de
See Brazil


Canada
See also Americas
CultureCanada.gc.ca
Government of Canada

For American Indians
See Aboriginal Culture and Heritage
History – First Nations

Le Canada : une histoire populaire = A People’s History
CBC/Radio-Canada

For American Civil War
See Explore the Episodes – Episode 8 – The Great Enterprise
Pre-Confederation British North America – American Civil War

For Battle of the Plains of Abraham
See Explore the Episodes – Episode 4
Battle for a Continent

For Blacks – United-States
See Explore the Episodes – Episode 8 – The Great Enterprise
Pre-Confederation British North America – Underground Railroad

For Filles du roi
See Audio / Vidéo, Episode 2 – Les Filles du roi (1-2)

For Fur Trade
See Explore the Episodes – Episode 6 – The Pathfinders

For Nootka Sound (James Cook – Maquinna)
See Explore the Episodes – Episode 1 – When the World Began…
John Jewitt’s Diary – Maquinna
See also Audio / Video, Episode 1 – Naming Nootka

For Riel, Louis
See Explore the Episodes – Episode 9 – From Sea to Sea
The Métis Resistance – Louis Riel

Pathfinders & Passageways : The Exploration of Canada
National Library of Canada, Ottawa

For Cook, James
See The Spanish Explore the West Coast
James Cook Europe’s Most Celebrated Explorer


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Chile
See also Americas
Le Chili de A à Z – Histoire
Toutsurlechili.com

Chile
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com

Chile
Encarta Encyclopedia

Chile
Federal Research Division, U.S. Library of Congress (Country Studies/Area Handbook Series)
Detailed study


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Colonization
Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas
University of Pennsylvania Library
Virtual exhibition


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Cook, James
See also Canada
Cook, James
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Bibliographical summary

Other link of interest:

“A Curious Variety of Mazes and Meanders”: The Voyage of Captain James Cook in the Global Eighteenth Century
Young Research Library, Department of Special Collections, University of Toronto


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Coureurs des bois
See Fur Trade
See New France


Cuba
See also Habana
Cuba
Encyclopédie Yahoo!

Cuba
Encarta Encyclopedia

Cuba
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com

Cuba Heritage.com
Cuban history, architecture and culture


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Filles du roi
See also Canada
See also New France
Il était une fois… Des filles venues de France
Musée de la civilisation, Québec
Virtual exhibition

Other link of interest:

Les femmes fondatrices de Montréal
Université du Québec à Montréal (student project)


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Fur Trade
See also Canada
Fur Trade
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com

L’exploration : le commerce et [la] Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson = Exploration : The Fur Trade and Hudson’s Bay Compagny
Institut canadien de microreproductions historiques/Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions

En quête d’aventure : La traite des fourrures au Canada et la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest = In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Compagny
Université McGill University

Hudson’s Bay Compagny ends its fur trade
CBC Archives


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Havana – Architecture
See also Cuba
Havana
HavanaArchitecture.com

Toward a new community development in Havana: the workshops for the integral transformation of the neighborhood
Byfornyelse Danmark
Text of a conference by Miguel Coyula, Architect, Faculty of Architecture, Instituto Superior Politécnico J.A.Echeverria, Havana

Urban Slums Report: The Case of Havana, Cuba
SeeMicrobrigades

Cuba Up Date (special : architecture)
Cuba Up Date, vol. 19, nos. 2/3 (Jan./Mar. and Apr./June 2000)


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Hegel, Georg Wilhem Friedrich
Hegel, Georg Wilhem Friedrich
Mémo, le site de l’Histoire
Biographical summary

Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel
L’Encyclopédie de l’Agora
Biographical summary

Hegel
Hegel.net
Reference website – See e-Texts for texts online


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Hudson River School
Hudson River School
Artchive.com
For information on this American group of landscape painters

Other links of interest:

Thomas Cole’s Images of America
The English Department, Choate Rosemary Hall School, Wallingford

Cole, Thomas, “Essay on American Scenery”, American Monthly Magazine, no. 1 (Jan. 1836), p. 1-12


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Humboldt, Alexander von
Alexandre von Humboldt
L’Encyclopédie de L’Agora
Biographical summary

Alexander von Humboldt – Netzwerke des Wissens = Networks of Knowledge
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Internet project realized as part of an exhibition

Alexander von Humboldt
Universität Potsdam
Reference website (English, Deutsch, Español) – Includes online texts

Humboldt en America (1799-1804), Simposio Internacional
Universidad de Chile
(Español, includes English texts)

Gallica – La bibliothèque numérique
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Many works by Alexandre von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland are available at the Gallica Online Library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. See in particular the Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent : fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1803 et 1804 (Vols. 1-4).


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Kane, Paul
Kane, Paul
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary

Paul Kane (1810-1871)
CyberMuse Art Unlimited
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa


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León Pinelo, Antonio de
Antonio de Leon Pinelo
Virtualology, Appletons Encyclopedia
Biographical summary

Other link of interest:

Capel, Horacio, “Religious beliefs, philosophy and scientific theory in the origin of Spanish geomorphology, 17th-18th centuries”, Organon (Polish Academy of Sciencie, Warsaw), 20/21, 1984/1985 (“La pensée géographique”), p. 219-229
Geo Crítica
Universitat de Barcelona


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Maquinna (Muquinna)
See also Canada
Muquinna (Macuina, Maquilla, Maquinna)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary


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New France
See also Canada
Virtual Museum of New France – Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, Hull

For Coureurs des bois – Fur Trade
See People – Les Coureurs des bois
Voyageurs and Hired Men

For Filles du roi
See People

New France: New Horizons
Virtual exhibition (Canada-France project)

For Battle of the Plains of Abraham
See Warfare

The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France
National Library of Canada, Ottawa

Other links of interest:

Champlain, Samuel de, The works of Samuel de Champlain (6 vols.), Toronto, Champlain Society, 1922-1936.
The Champlain Society, Toronto

Lescarbot, Marc, Les muses de la Nouvelle-France : à Monseigneur le chancelier, Paris, Jean Milot…, 1609.
Early Canadiana Online, Canadian Institute for Historical for Microreproductions

Marie de l’Incarnation, mère, Écrits spirituels et historiques (Tomes 2, 3, 4), Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1930
Our roots: Canada’s local histories online


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Nootka Sound
See Canada
See Cook, James
See Maquinna (Muquinna)


Riel, Louis
See also Canada
See also Scott, Thomas
Riel, Louis
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary

Louis Riel: One Life, One Vision
The Heritage Centre ; The Société historique de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
See in particular Thomas Scott

Other links of interest:

Métis Men : Louis Riel, Site Internet fransaskois

Louis Riel Trial, 1885
School of Law, University of Missouri, Kansas City
See in particular A Comic-Strip History – The Execution of Thomas Scott

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Saint James the Greater
Saint Jacques le Majeur
Église arménienne.com
Biographical summary

Images of Medieval Art and Architecture: Saint James the Greater
Alison Stones, University of Pittsburg
Biographical summary


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Scott, Thomas
See also Riel, Louis
Scott, Thomas
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Biographical summary


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Slavery
See also Blacks – United-States
L’esclavage
Encyclopédie Yahoo!

Slavery
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com

Transatlantic Slavery - Against Human Dignity
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Virtual exhibition

Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia
Virtual exhibition


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Social Microbrigades
See Havana – Architecture


War of the Triple Alliance
The War of the Triple Alliance
Federal Research Division, U.S. Library of Congress (Country Studies/Area Handbook Series)

The Struggle for Survival, 1852-75
Federal Research Division, U.S. Library of Congress (Country Studies/Area Handbook Series)
War of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay) against Paraguay (1865-1870)


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West, Benjamin
See also Battle of the Plains of Abraham
West, Benjamin
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com
Biographical summary

Benjamin West
Artcyclopedia.com
Some works…

Benjamin West and ‘The Death of Wolfe’ (essay by Colonel C.P. Stacey, Director of History, Department of National Defense)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Images in Action
Tolerance.org
The figure of the American Indian in The Death of Wolfe, 1770

Other link of interest:

A national treasure in New Brunswick : James Barry’s The Death of General Wolfe, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John
Virtual exhibition


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