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Christopher Columbus
Today we talk about a very divisive man in history: Christopher Columbus. In 1492 he sailed the ocean blue and for some reason that's all we really learn about him...but there is a very dark side to Columbus. We'll be talking about him in a more well rounded way today.
Sources:
Paul, Heike. “Christopher Columbus and the Myth of ‘Discovery.’” In The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies, 43–88. Transcript Verlag, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1wxsdq.5.
Tinker, Tink, and Mark Freeland. “Thief, Slave Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline.” Wicazo Sa Review 23, no. 1 (2008): 25–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30131245.
Churchill, Ward. Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Common Courage Press, 1994.
Kiernan, Ben. Blood and Soil. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
“Epistola Christofori Colom ...de Insulis Indie Supra Gangem.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Accessed March 20, 2026. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/t-01427.pdf.
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By Megan Tobias, Trevor Tobias, and JasonToday we talk about a very divisive man in history: Christopher Columbus. In 1492 he sailed the ocean blue and for some reason that's all we really learn about him...but there is a very dark side to Columbus. We'll be talking about him in a more well rounded way today.
Sources:
Paul, Heike. “Christopher Columbus and the Myth of ‘Discovery.’” In The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies, 43–88. Transcript Verlag, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1wxsdq.5.
Tinker, Tink, and Mark Freeland. “Thief, Slave Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline.” Wicazo Sa Review 23, no. 1 (2008): 25–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30131245.
Churchill, Ward. Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Common Courage Press, 1994.
Kiernan, Ben. Blood and Soil. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
“Epistola Christofori Colom ...de Insulis Indie Supra Gangem.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Accessed March 20, 2026. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/t-01427.pdf.