Electronic Web Sources for Early American Literature

New Spain

The Literature of Justification
Part of the new Lehigh University digital project, "History on Trial" Literature of Justification is an ongoing project by students at Lehigh University that takes as its provocative starting point the "gigantic question" that Washington Irving asks in his 1809 History of New York (Book I, chapter v): "What right had the first discoverers of America to land, and take possession of a country, without asking the consent of its inhabitants, or yielding them an adequate compensation for their territory?"

Priviledges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher

Extracts from Columbus' Journal on the First Voyage

The Columbus Letter on the First Voyage

The Columbus Doors in the U.S. Capitol

World's Columbian Exposition (1893)

A Faithful Response to the 500th Anniversary

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project