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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 dart contemporain de Montréal assumes no responsability for the content of external links.
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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 dAlamo!
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 |
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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
Doint 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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Indians of North America
California State University, Long Beach
Portal
American Indian Resources
Will Karkavelas, Osaka University
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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 : lenfance déracinée (1950-2004)
Archives de Radio-Canada
Les droits territoriaux des autochtones (1763-2002)
Archives de Radio-Canada

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LAmérique
Mémo, le site de lHistoire
File on the Americas

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Battle of the Plains of Abraham
See also Canada
See also New France
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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
See Our 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
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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 Scotias 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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William Ranney, Boones 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 liconographie 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
See Marguerite Bourgeoys
To know more about the work of the female religious communities in New France, see:
Luvre 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!
Lhistoire 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
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
See Burle 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
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Canada
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CultureCanada.gc.ca
Government of Canada
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American Indians |
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Aboriginal Culture and Heritage
History First Nations |
Le Canada : une histoire populaire = A Peoples History
CBC/Radio-Canada
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American Civil War |
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Explore the Episodes Episode 8 The Great Enterprise
Pre-Confederation British North America American Civil War
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
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Explore the Episodes Episode 4
Battle for a Continent
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Blacks United-States |
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Explore the Episodes Episode 8 The Great Enterprise
Pre-Confederation British North America Underground Railroad
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Filles du roi |
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Audio / Vidéo, Episode 2 Les Filles du roi (1-2)
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Fur Trade |
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Explore the Episodes Episode 6 The Pathfinders
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Nootka Sound (James Cook Maquinna) |
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Explore the Episodes Episode 1 When the World Began
John Jewitts Diary Maquinna
See also Audio / Video, Episode 1 Naming Nootka
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Riel, Louis |
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See |
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Explore the Episodes Episode 9 From Sea to Sea
The Métis Resistance Louis Riel
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Pathfinders & Passageways : The Exploration of Canada
National Library of Canada, Ottawa
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Cook, James |
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The Spanish Explore the West Coast
James Cook Europes 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 |  |
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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

|  | 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)

|  | Fur Trade
See also Canada |  |
Fur Trade
(Excerpt from The Expanded Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
HistoryChannel.com
Lexploration : le commerce et [la] Compagnie de la Baie dHudson = Exploration : The Fur Trade and Hudsons Bay Compagny
Institut canadien de microreproductions historiques/Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
En quête daventure : 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
Hudsons Bay Compagny ends its fur trade
CBC Archives

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

|  | | Hegel, Georg Wilhem Friedrich |  |
Hegel, Georg Wilhem Friedrich
Mémo, le site de lHistoire
Biographical summary
Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel
LEncyclopédie de lAgora
Biographical summary
Hegel
Hegel.net
Reference website See e-Texts for texts online

|  | | Hudson River School |  |
Hudson River School
Artchive.com
For information on this American group of landscape painters
Other links of interest:
Thomas Coles 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

|  | | Humboldt, Alexander von |  |
Alexandre von Humboldt
LEncyclopédie de LAgora
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).

|  | | 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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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

|  | 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

|  | New France
See also Canada |  |
Virtual Museum of New France Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, Hull
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Coureurs des bois Fur Trade |
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People Les Coureurs des bois
Voyageurs and Hired Men
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Filles du roi |
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People
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New France: New Horizons
Virtual exhibition (Canada-France project)
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
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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 lIncarnation, mère, Écrits spirituels et historiques (Tomes 2, 3, 4), Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 1930
Our roots: Canadas local histories online

|  | Nootka Sound
See Canada
See Cook, James
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|  | 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
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A Comic-Strip History The Execution of Thomas Scott |

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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

|  | 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

|  | Slavery
See also Blacks United-States |  |
Lesclavage
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

|  | Social Microbrigades
See Havana Architecture |  |
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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)

|  | 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 Barrys The Death of General Wolfe, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John
Virtual exhibition

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