Larry E. Tise became the Wilbur and Orville Wright Distinguished
Professor of History at East Carolina University in 2000. He holds
a PhD from the University of North Carolina and was a history
administrator for many years, as well as a founder and president of
the National Council on Public History. His research ranges from
early explorers Thomas Harriot and Sir Walter Raleigh to the Wright
brothers and the origins of flight.
Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden
University, the Netherlands. He was previously Associate Professor
of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, as well as
Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New
York. Van Groesen specializes in European conceptions of the early
modern Atlantic world and has been published widely on the subject.
Europe's eye-popping first glimpse of the Americas.
*The Spectator*
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