San Antonio College Library

Some tall tales and legends of history that are accepted as facts are exposed as fiction.

Velikovsky suggests that the accepted chronology of the ancient world is incorrect, and that Ramses II lived not in the thirteenth century before the present era, but at the end of the seventh, and that he is identical with Pharaoh Necho of the Scriptures.

"Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers--hardly immune as a group to the disease--routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor--spread by colonists and Native...

"Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, written in a scholarly but readable style, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest explains why Columbus did not set out to prove the world was round, the conquistadors were not soldiers,...