This five-day lesson will introduce the students to the author of the novel as the beginning of a unit. The students will conduct research to obtain biographical information about the author and read/analyze summaries and critiques of...

This interdisciplinary lesson on two books by C.P. Curtis features young scholars in one classroom (or group) reading one of the books while the other class (or group) reads the other novel. Each class then divides into groups and...

Fordham University provides the full text of a letter written about 1494 from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain regarding the Islands of Hispaniola.

The paragraph in this site deals with the first original work of Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great. His work was played in 1587 or 1588.

Students will write about what they would trade for gold and practice inventive spelling in the process. After reading "In 1492", students will discuss how Christopher Columbus traded with the natives and then write what they would trade...

An image of "Christoph Fugger", created by Christoph Amberger in 1541 (Wood, 97 x 80 cm).

Sarcophagus of Christopher Columbus in the Cathedral (Seville)

Statue of Christopher Columbus and Coit Tower (San Francisco)

Statue of Christopher Columbus (New York)

Christopher Columbus Park (Boston)

An image of Christopher Durang.

An image of Christopher Durang.

Portrait of Christopher Columbus.

A portrait of Christoph Clavius from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Christopher Hansteen from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Christoph Schorer from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of Leonhard Christoph Sturm from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students recognize why we celebrate Columbus Day as related to the story of Christopher Columbus. Students explore the route taken from Spain to the Americas and how long this voyage took by using a...

An on-line exhibit displaying copies of Columbus' journals, other writings about his voyages and findings, as well as information and artifacts of the Taino, the Native Americans Columbus encountered on San Salvador.

A review of the history of the typewriter and a description of the first practical one invented by Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule.

Each writer will brainstorm experiences where he/she has learned some sort of instructional activity about life. Each will then come up with a personal list of "Rules and Things for a Funner Life," such as those shared in Bud, Not Buddy...

This site features the author Edward Everett Hale including the full text of the nonfiction work The Life of Christopher Columbus, and the short story "My Double; and How He Undid Me".

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Basket of Flowers or Piety and Truth Triumphant by Christoph von Schmid, (1880?) a Christian novel.