Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/author-takes-a-new-look-at-americas-old-history Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript By tracing the paths of European settlers in the 16th century, Tony Horwitz tells the history of America's colonization of the new world during an oft-forgotten century. Ray Suarez discusses Horwitz's new book, "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World." Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, a conversation about rediscovering the new world, and to Ray Suarez. RAY SUAREZ: Think you know about history, especially our own? Every school kid knows Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. But then what? What happened in the new world over the next hundred or so years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620?It's that lost century that Tony Horwitz focuses on in his new book "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World."It's like you single-handedly went out to become a — to fly the flag for the 16th century. TONY HORWITZ, Author: Well, it's weird that we've lost a whole century. I think most Americans would be hard-pressed to think of one thing that happened on this continent in the 1500s. Perhaps the lost colony of Roanoke, that might resonate, Virginia Dare. And apart from that, I think it's a blank.