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Summer History Talks: Where Columbus Almost Met Cortés and Montezuma
Live Presentation via Zoom
Virtual Screening Room
Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025 12:00 PM
Arizona / Mountain Standard Time
Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Matthew Restall for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona!
In a staircase mural in the old Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, the Discoverer, the Conqueror, and the Emperor almost met. But in the end, only Columbus was preserved in paint, chosen over Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing upon a trio of his books, recent and upcoming, historian Matthew Restall uses the story of this mural to explore how the legends of these three men evolved over the past five centuries. Understanding that evolution, he argues, dramatically changes how we see much of the history of the Americas, from the Aztecs to the present day.
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Matthew Restall was born in London in 1964, growing up in Madrid, Caracas, and Tokyo, but schooled in England from the age of eight. He earned a BA in History from Oxford University, and a PhD in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Having held teaching positions at various universities in the United States, he is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at Penn State University.
Professor Restall has won NEH, Guggenheim, Leverhulme, Library of Congress, Institute for Advanced Study, and other fellowships; and he has served as President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, and as editor of Ethnohistory and the Hispanic American Historical Review. He has published 23 books (41, counting revised and translated editions, published in seven languages) and 90 essays and articles, focusing on three fields: the Spanish Conquest era; Maya history; the African diaspora in the Americas; and the history of popular music. His best-known books are Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003 and 2021) and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History (2018). New in 2025 are On Elton John (March, from Oxford) and The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus (October, from Norton).
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