Christopher Columbus
The Travels Sir John Mandeville, (c.1500) (Project Gutenberg)
Leo Africanus, The Description of Africa (1526) excerpt, description of Timbuktu (Washington State University)
Hernán Cortés: Letter from Mexico (1519) (CUNY)
Hernán Cortés: Letter to Emperor Charles V (1520) (excerpt) Letters Magazine (Jan./Feb. 1997)
Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to the Emperor Charles V (1520) (University of Michigan)
Bernardino de Sahagún: The war of conquest: how it was waged here in Mexico (1519-1521) (University of Michigan)
An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Internet Modern Sourcebook)
Francisco de Coronado: Report from Cibola to Mendoza (1540) (PBS, The West)
Francisco de Coronado: Report to the king of Spain (1541) (PBS, The West)
Richard Hakluyt: Discourse of Western Planting (1584) excerpts (American Revolution)
Thomas Hariot: A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) (Melissa Kennedy)
John Smith, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia (1612) excerpts (Washington State University)
John Smith, A Description of New England (1614) excerpts (Parker River)
Samuel Champlain, The Voyages of Samuel Champlain (1613) excerpts (The American Revolution)
Samuel Champlain, The Voyages of Samuel Champlain (1613) excerpts (Parker River)
John Pory: Description of Plymouth (1622) (Mayflower Web Page)

The following is a selection of the many articles, essays, and book excerpts that can be found at Columbus and the Age of Discovery (MIllersville University). Bibliographical information is provided, though it is not always complete or consistent.

Rolena Adorno, "The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: The Authority of Eyewitness Testimony in the Writing of History"
James Axtell, "The Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America"
James Axtell, "Columbian Encounters: 1992-95,"
James Axtell, "Columbian Encluunters: Beyond 1492"
David Block, "Quincentennial Publishing: An Ocean of Print"
David Buisseret, "Spain Maps Her 'New World'"
Lionel Casson, "Setting the Stage for Columbus"
Alfred W. Crosby, "Rethinking the Encounter: new perspectives on Conquest and Colonization, 1450-1550"
Brian M. Fagan, The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America excerpts
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Before Columbus excerpts
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible excerpts
Interview with Carlos Fuentes
Maria Paz Haro, "Religious Orders, The Indian, And The Conquest: Fifty Years of Dispute and Contradiction"
John E. Kicza, "Patterns in Early Spanish Overseas Expansion"
Cassidy Lynch, "Ships, Sailing and Sailors"
Martin E. Marty, "The Clamor over Columbus"
William H. McNeill, "How Columbus Remade the World"
Delno C. West, "Medieval Ideas of Apocalyptic Mission and the Early Franciscans in Mexico"
Samuel M. Wilson, "Columbus's Competition"

The Hakluyt Society
1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Library of Congress)
Discoverers Web (Andre Engels)
European Explorers Gander Academy)
Explorers (Educator's Choice)
The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries a tutor (University of Calgary)
Mary R. Murrin, The European Age of Exploration: A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography (Columbus and the Age of Discovery)