This still has its name- Glendale Ca.
This evening I have been searching for a definitive, honest biography of the man. Attendant to that search has been this nagging question: How does one locate the best history books and biographies? It is not as easy as it sounds.
Great article that should be read in full and shared all over social media. While some will dismiss it, at least the truth will go out to some.
Columbus’s crime is that he was white. Case closed...guilty as charged.
We keep hearing about this onslaught against American history on part of progressives, yet the lack of conservative interest in being a citizen historian means very few are rising to meet the challenge.
People just seem to want to engage in the political process and nothing more.
As to where to locate a good book about Christopher Columbus,(it was asked) I don’t have a direct answer in the sense that I know definitively “this is the book to read” because I’ll be honest, I have not read it. However I think it would probably be safe to start with Washington Irving’s 1828 book about Columbus. Free to read here:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_Life_and_Voyages_of_Chr/V0i3w-c9__cC?gbpv=1
It is remarkable in its own right that our country saw fit to establish a national holiday in honor of an explorer who never set foot in our land. No other explorer I know of enjoys a national holiday in the USA.
This ought to stir up some curiosity. Who was this guy? Honestly, what did he do that so motivated our forbears to establish this holiday?
The extent of my instruction as a youth is that Columbus “discovered America” and “proved that the earth is not flat.”
What a sad commentary on public education, and I have occupied this sphere for over six decades!
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Philly tried to change a road’s name from Delaware Avenue to Columbus Boulevard. The local “Delaware Indians” protested being usurped by a white guy.
They did not know they were named after famed indian fighter Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, another white guy.
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Spain sent Columbus west to open trade routes to the East. After the fall of Constantinople the Ottomans blocked the Silk Road. For the same reason Portugal sent Vasco de Gama south around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
According to what a leftist told me : CC is being blamed or confused or conflated with the later Spanish treasure hunters like Cortez DeSoto et al.