THE COLLISION OF
CULTURES
America before Columbus
Europe Looks Westward
The Arrival of the English
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he discovery of the Americas did not begin with
Christopher Columbus. It began many thousands of
years earlier, when human beings first crossed into
the new continents and began to peopl...
ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia
University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin,
and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book award; American
History: A Survey; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and
War; Liberalism and Its Discontents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and The
Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. He was educated at
Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught at Harvard, Princeton, the City
University of New York Graduate School, and Oxford University, where
he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History. He won the Joseph
R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great
Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the
National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman
of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation.
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