In the United States, three powerful myths — the story of Columbus discovering America, the First Thanksgiving, and the Southern Strategy — have constructed a picture of power. Each was a strategic ...

Somehow, the 15th-century Italian explorer still got his own national holiday. But more cities and states are scrapping Columbus Day to honor the people who were here first — and who suffered greatly ...

To say that Christopher Columbus was a latecomer to the Western Hemisphere would be an understatement. By the time he arrived in 1492, the Native Americans had been there for tens of thousands of ...

In 1992, on the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering America, California celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day and, in 2021, President Joe Biden issued the first presidential proclamation ...

This short tells a story about what the world would look like if Columbus never discovered America? With Americas never being ...

BEIJING -- Forgive Gavin Menzies for feeling a little defensive. His book, "1421: The Year China Discovered America," may be selling briskly in the United States, but his extraordinary theory that ...

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