It's our first episode on an animated film! Join us for a discussion of the El Dorado myth, dice, wanted posters, and more!

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Background: Making The Road to El Dorado, pt. 1 https://youtu.be/Rk0Qmfr1Q4o Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_El_Dorado Ebert review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-road-to-el-dorado-2000

Hernan Cortes at Sea: Reynolds, Winston A. "The Burning Ships of Hernán Cortés." Hispania 42, no. 3 (1959): 317-24. Accessed September 22, 2020. doi:10.2307/335707. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Accessed September 21, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central. J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America 6th edition

Wanted Posters: Seth Ferranti, "The History of the Most Wanted Poster," Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-history-of-the-most-wanted-poster_b_5851ba70e4b0865ab9d4e8d7 Dane Schiller, "The Evolution of the Wanted Poster," SF Gate https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-evolution-of-the-wanted-poster-6110088.php James Casey, Early Modern Spain: A Social History (New York: Routledge, 1999). Wanted poster for Angela Davis: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.60.8 Danny Lewis, "An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories," Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archive-fugitive-slave-ads-could-shed-new-light-lost-histories-180959194/ Simon Middleton, "Runaways, Rewards, and the Social History of Money," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15:3 (Summer 2017): 617-647. 10.1353/eam.2017.0022 Miriam Muller, "Social control and the hue and cry in two fourteenth-century villages," Journal of Medieval History 31:1 (March 2005): 29-53.

Dice: Veronique Greenwood, "The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance," The Atlantic (20 February 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/dice-dice-baby/553742/ Christine Dell'Amore, "Prehistoric Dice Boards Found--Oldest Games in Americas?" National Geographic (14 December 2010). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101210-dice-gaming-gambling-native-american-indian-casinos-science/ https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-royal-game-of-cupid-a-17th-century-board-game loaded dice: https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/collections/show/92#:~:text=%5B1%5D%20The%20owner%20of%20the,into%20the%20later%20Middle%20Ages. and Museum of London https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/41609.html

The El Dorado Myth: Willie Drye, "El Dorado," National Geographic. Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/archaeology/el-dorado/ Jago Cooper, "El Dorado: The Truth Behind the Myth," BBC News. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20964114#:~:text=The%20European%20myth%20that%20arose,lands%20for%20their%20monetary%20value.

The "Europeans Mistaken for Gods" Myth American Historical Association, "What the Textbooks Have to Say About the Conquest of Mexico." Available at https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/the-history-of-the-americas/the-conquest-of-mexico/for-students/what-the-textbooks-have-to-say-about-the-conquest-of-mexico Camilla Townsend, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," American Historical Review (2003) Bernardino de Sahagun, The Florentine Codex. Full text available at https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/ Camilla Townsend, "Inventing a God," Lapham's Quarterly. Available at https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/inventing-god#:~:text=It%20would%20become%20an%20accepted,and%20quickly%20despaired%20of%20victory.