Table of Contents of Americana Latine

Andrew Dinan
4 min readDec 18, 2020

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One of the best ways to get a sense of the range and diversity of the texts assembled in Americana Latine is to take a look at the table of contents, which we provide here:

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Vinland (11th century)
1.1 Greenland (12th–15th centuries)
2 Columbus’s First Voyage (1492)
3 The World Divided (1493)
4 John and Sebastian Cabot (1498, 1508)
5 America Placed and Named (1507)
6 Florida (1513)
7 Verrazzano in New York (1524)
8 Native American Rights (1537)
9 Coronado in Kansas (1541)
10 Mexico City (1554)
11 Florida: Hunting and the Ballgame (1565)
12 An Early Spanish Mission to Virginia (1570)
13 Sir Francis Drake in California (1579)
14 New Mexico (1582)
15 “Nothing but Solitude” in Newfoundland (1583)
16 Native Americans and Latin in Mexico (1584)
17 The English in Maine (1607)
18 The Beginning of New Netherland (1609–15)
19 New France in Maine (1613)
20 Maryland (1634)
21 Latin or French in New York? (1643)
22 New World Diplomacy I: New Sweden and New England (1644)
23 New World Diplomacy II: New France and New Netherland (1658)
24 The Mississippi (1673)
25 Native American Poetry at Harvard (1678)
26 The Tenth Muse in Mexico (1679)
27 The French in Louisiana (1682, 1700)
28 Nightmare in Massachusetts (1685)
29 Far North (1695)
30 A Father Seeks his Son in Pennsylvania (1699)
31 Mission to California (1681, 1700)
32 Latin Poetry as Payment (1703)
33 Isolation in the Mississippi Valley (1707)
34 Latin Grammar in the Maine Forest (1720)
35 French Expedition into the Rocky Mountains (1743)
36 A Latin Journal in the Seven Years War (1759)
37 Latin Letters among Friends (1765)
38 Lightning Rod: Benjamin Franklin in Germany (1767)
39 Vale, California! (1767)
40 Loyalist Latin in New York (1777)
41 New World Medicine: Williamsburg (1782)
42 Unhappiness in the Heartland (1786)
43 How to Describe George Washington? (1786)
44 Native Americans Write the Pope (1789)
45 George Washington’s Southern Tour: A Latin Greeting (1791)
46 Eulogy for George Washington (1799)
47 District of Columbia (1806)
48 Mission to the Cherokees (1806)
49 O Fontes Pennsylvaniae! (1809, 1810)
50 Latin Poetry among Friends (1809, 1814)
51 Friendly Advice on Foreign Affairs (1811)
52 Northwest Territory (1815)
53 Harvard Oration (1816)
54 Missouri Compromise (1820)
55 An Indigent Latin Scholar in Ohio (1821)
56 Exiled from Hawaii (1831)
57 Sale of Slaves (1836)
58 Fire at Georgetown (1836)
59 The Weight of Correspondence on the Frontier (1836)
60 In Montes Saxosos (1839)
61 The Republic of Texas (1840)
62 Thoreau Family Correspondence: Mother, Brother, Sister (1840)
63 A Politician’s Vacation to New York (1840)
64 Salmon Fishing in Washington (1840s)
65 Midwestern Adventures: Erie Canal, Mackinac Island, Lake Superior (1840s)
66 A Chaplain in the Mexican-American War (1846)
67 Classical and Romantic Poetry in South Carolina (1848)
68 The Death of an “Excellent and Universally Respected Consort” (1851)
69 Catholic Council in Baltimore (1852)
70 A Pope Writes a President (1853)
71 Bleeding Kansas (1854)
72 Crossing the Superfluvium — the Mississippi (1856)
73 A Cathedral and a Cable (1858)
74 Latin Writing: The Custom of Learned Germans (1858)
75 Theology in Latin in America (1860)
76 The Death of Football (1860)
77 Baltimore during the Civil War (1861)
78 A Plea for Peace (1862)
79 Wartime Latin: Father to Son (1863)
80 Between Two Armies: West Virginia (1863)
81 Abraham Lincoln and Servius Tullius (1865)
82 The Drake Constitution (1865)
83 Cicero and the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore (1866)
84 Racism (1870)
85 A Pope Writes the Couer d’Alene Tribe (1871)
86 Cuba to Florida (1871)
87 Wedding Poetry (1875)
88 Latin Epigraphy in Modern America (1880)
89 Mission to Hungary (1881)
90 Laetare (1880)
91 The Brooklyn Bridge (1883)
92 Isolation in South Dakota (1883)
93 Maryland Day (1884)
94 “The Italian Problem” (1888)
95 Latin between Sister and Brother (1890)
96 The Golden Age of Latin Drama in the United States (1890s)
97 Columbus Anniversary (1892)
98 Native Americans Dispossessed of Land in Idaho (1895)
99 Postprandial Eloquence in New York City (1895)
100 Questionable Latin in Boston (1897)
101 Bicentennial at Yale (1901)
102 African Americans and Latin (1902)
103 Tobacco (1903)
104 The Miseries of African Americans (1903)
105 Winter (1905)
106 Spring (1907)
107 Oratio Salutatoria at Harvard (1909)
108 Nuntii Latini de America (1912)
109 Alaskan Storm (1916)
110 Icarus and the U.S. Mail (1918)
111 Prohibition (1920)
112 Celebratory Ode at Mount Holyoke (1921)
113 Flight: Los Angeles across the Atlantic
114 Horace Bicentennial (1935)
115 Eisenhower at Oxford (1945)
116 Patron Saint of Immigrants (1949–50)
117 Gettysburg Address (1959)
118 Nuclear Weapons (1964)

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