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Lesson Plans for high school, middle school and elementary school classrooms

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Maps from the Age of Exploration

Suggested Exploration Sources

All previous issues of History Now are available here




Navigating the Age of Exploration by Ted Widmer		The Columbian Exchange by Alfred Crosby



Native American Discoveries of Europe by Daniel Richter		Jamestown and the Founding of English America by James Horn



Magellan: Missing in Action by Laurence Bergreen		Conflict and Commerce: The Rise and Fall of New Netherland by Simon Middleton