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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Biography

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of PATHFINDERS: A Global History of Exploration and OUR AMERICA: A Hispanic History of the United States. He lives in South Bend, Indiana and London.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Books by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto - History, Nonfiction

The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater.