Author: marycarolghislin
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Rare Peak at the Little-Known Explorer, Captain Juan Pardo
On his second expedition, Captain Juan Pardo led 120 soldiers to Joara, a small Indian village in present-day North Carolina. They arrived on September 22, 1567. On his first visit, he had read the requerimiento to the villagers. It demanded that they agree to be subject to the Spanish King…
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Resurrecting the Truth About Christopher Columbus, Part 3
Columbus finally meets a king who has enough authority to help him. But he later learns that it is not what he believes it to be.
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Resurrecting the Truth About Christopher Columbus, Part 2
Columbus continues to lie to the sailors about how far they are actually sailing. Seeing constant mirages and facing false hope, the sailors are near mutiny.
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Resurrecting the Truth About Christopher Columbus, Part 1
An unknown young man finds himself caught in a fierce sea battle, off the coast of Portugal. He’s thrown overboard at least six miles off shore, and somehow, he knows which way to swim toward land. It’s about 1470, when he finds land and makes his way to Lisbon to…
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How Spanish Greed Led to Tragic Battles, Part 2
De Soto continued through the new lands with a haughtiness that became well-known among the native tribes, with disastrous effect.
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How Spanish Greed Led to Tragic Battles, Part 1
Wandering through a new landscape completely unknown to them, De Soto, his men, and his horses were starving. They pressed on convinced that gold would be their reward, and shocked by the clever resistance they faced from the native tribes.
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Fighting and Surviving in a Strange New World, Part 3
“They Ran South for Miles” For over a year, they secretly planned to flee by quietly meeting when tribes were close by. “And on the thirteenth of the month, Andrés Dorantes and Estevanico came to where I was, and they told me how they had left Castillo with other Indians called…
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Fighting and Surviving in a Strange New World, Part 2
Accepting Life-Threatening Risk (cont.) For three days, De Vaca and his men rowed desperately until they saw columns of smoke from the shoreline and another boat nearby. De Vaca ordered them to row up to it and saw that is twas Captain Narváez’s boat. He begged him for orders on…
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Fighting and Surviving in a Strange New World, Part I
Arguing with the Captain It was Saturday May 1, 1528 and Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca stood on the coast of La Florida arguing with his Captain. They had walked for about three weeks along the coast, but now, the Captain wanted to walk further inland to find gold. He asked his…
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6 Court Rulings That Framed a Definition of Free Speech
Pico and Tinker were high school students. Brandenburg was a member of the KKK. What did they have in common? They all tested the limits of free speech.
