Christopher Columbus

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  12/14/2022
  

  Philly's Columbus Statue is Out of the Box—So is the Discussion About His Legacy

  Historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about controversial statues: one removed in Richmond, and one uncovered in Philadelphia.

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• SOURCE: nj.com
  10/11/2021
  

  How Our Hero Columbus Has Fallen

  by Brian Regal

  "Humans seem to need to have heroes, but we’re often not sure what to do with them. We want them to embody high ideals, but they rarely do."

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Reviving the Conflict Between Columbus and Taíno Chieftain Caonabó Through Historical Fiction

  by Andrew Rowen

  By resisting the conquest of Columbus, Taíno peoples made the story of conquest their story too. A novelist explains how he worked to recover both sides of the conflict, including the values and worldview of Native and European antagonists, through historical fiction. 

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• SOURCE: Defector
  7/28/2021
  

  Christopher Columbus And The Replacement-Level Historical Figure

  by Patrick Wyman

  Rather than debate Columbus's heroism or villainy, take a page from sports analytics: consider him a mediocre player and focus on the broader game being played.

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  10/20/19
  

  Who's stealing Christopher Columbus letters from libraries around the world?

  Copies of a letter written by Christopher Columbus describing his first impressions of the Americas have become so rare and valuable, they're being stolen and replaced with forgeries at some of the world's most prestigious libraries.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/20/19
  

  Vermont passes bill abolishing Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  The state is one signature away from abolishing Columbus Day altogether and permanently recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Don’t they know Columbus never landed in America?’: Third-graders found error in their workbook. Here’s what they did about it.

  The Math in Focus workbook said in a math problem that Columbus landed in America in 1492. The students at Valleyview Elementary School in Oneonta knew that wasn’t true — and they wanted the publisher to fix the error.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-5-18
  

  Columbus believed he would find ‘blemmyes’ and ‘sciapods’ – not people – in the New World

  by Peter C. Mancall

  Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and 'monstrous men' would be awaiting him.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  10-5-18
  

  The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'

  Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.

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• 1/21/18
  

  How Do We Get from the Statues We Have to the Statues We Want?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  The New York City Monuments Commission has some ideas.

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• SOURCE: Seton Hall University
  12-6-17
  

  Seton Hall University's William Connell tells NPR why Italian-Americans embraced Columbus

  Professor Connell tells how although Italians did not come to this country venerating Columbus, they found here an American public that did.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-6-17
  

  How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol

  by William Francis Keegan

  Columbus likely would have slipped back into obscurity if not for American hubris.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-9-17
  

  The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

  by Edward Burmila

  How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  10-4-17
  

  As Confederate statues come down, what about Columbus?

  While historians caution against lumping in Columbus with Confederates who came three centuries later, they say Columbus’ holiday and monuments remain ripe for reassessment — whether they stay, change or vanish entirely.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  10-3-17
  

  Should America Take Down Monuments That Romanticize Conquistadors?

  “There’s a bigger issue here, and that is what it means to tell the truth about history,” says Stephanie Fryberg, a professor of American Indian Studies and Psychology at the University of Washington.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Signal
  9-25-17
  

  Conservatives are blaming Howard Zinn for “birthing” the "Anti-Columbus Crusade”

  by Jarrett Stepman

  "His narrative is based on the idea that not only was Columbus a villain, but the product of his discovery was also an evil."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-10-16
  

  The war against Columbus Day

  A growing number of communities are now ditching the traditional Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People’s Day.

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• 10-6-16
  

  Perils of Indigenous People’s Day

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Students often think Native Americans are all dead.  Why? Teachers only teach what happened to them as victims from long ago.  

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  9-30-16
  

  Campaign To Tear Down Statue of Christopher Columbus

  For more than century a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus has adorned the Barcelona skyline, but now a group of anti-capitalist councilors are working to get the memorial torn down.