Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France. As he sailed ...

Suffers from significant fillm emulsion damage at the beginning. The film narrates the story of European explorers during the Age of Discovery, focusing on the French, English, and Dutch efforts to ...

Let me start with the takeaway: “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War” is a tour de force, so much so that it’s almost impossible to ...