Amazing Resources for the Conquest of the Americas

Here are some AMAZING resources from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies & Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

Many of the resources look at the conquest of the Americas and ask students to examine the motivations and the different perspectives of conquest. Many of the primary sources are images.

Click on the K-12 curriculum. Scroll down and you'll see a terrific lesson for the Age of Exploration. Students learn about Cortes and Pizarro through two short videos and then analyze several images showing the encounter between the Spaniards and the indigenous Americans.

In another lesson, students learn about conquest perspectives through several fantastic images and a short account which you can see here.

The images are amazing and some are in formats that allow the student to zoom in and out.

Other lessons include "The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the U.S.-Mexico Border," "Shared Resistance in the Mexican Revolution," and "Colonialism’s Impact on Mexico."

The undergraduate curriculum is also worth exploring, but require more time and work with online tools like StoryMap. In a unit called "In What Ways Might Colonization Lead to Rebellion" you will find some great resources on Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.