From the Editor
Teachers responsible for a class in early American history often find themselves asking: When does American history begin? What does “America” include? Is this a story only of the English colonies, or is it the story of the settlement and displacement of many races, nationalities, and regions across two American continents, Europe and Africa?
This issue of History Now takes the broadest approach to such questions, examining what historians call “The Atlantic World,” the four continents linked by the Atlantic Ocean. In “Three...More »
The Historian's Perspective
England on the Eve of Colonization
by Paul E. J. Hammer
Change and Crisis: North America on the Eve of the European Invasion
by Christopher L. Miller
Perils of the Ocean in the Early Modern Era
by Robert C. Ritchie