The retrospective history of the Americas as a whole

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• The history of the Americas in general
• The history of the Americas before European contact in 1492

• First contact and Christopher Columbus

Idea of Discoverers' Day insults native Americans

By Mary Adamski, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 13 October 1998. Columbus Day, or Discoverers' Day as it's called in Hawaii, is offensive to the indigenous people who inhabited lands that European explorers found. The term discovery meant to rob us, for the idea is we discover something and its ours.

Bartolomé de Las Casas and his Defence of the Indians

Tairona Heritage Studies Centre, [20 October 2000]. Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1576) took part in the colonization of Cuba. The barbarity of the Spanish conquistadores shocked him, bringing about a conversion and entry into the Dominican order. Thereafter, he devoted himself to the defence of the Indians, and the cataloguing of Spanish atrocities against them. Extract from his Short Account on The Province of Santa Marta.

Bay of Pigs Invasion ‘Dumb,’ Says Ex-Kennedy Aide

Reuters, Friday 23 March 2001. The ill-fated U.S-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 was a dumb plan that should never have gone ahead, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told an academic conference in Havana.

Compensation claim against the United States

Granma, 10 August 2003. Genocide of 101 children through CIA-introduced dengue epidemic in Cuba: Expert witnesses testify, Mothers accuse. In relation to the 1982 epidemic, the scientist stated that the Institutes of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Epidemology diagnosed the virus as dengue fever type 2, which was not present in the Americas, nor in countries with which Cuba maintained relations.