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Columbus Day: Black legend meets White City

  • Written by William Francis Keegan, Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida
imageAgricultural Building at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1893.University of Maryland Digital Collections

The story of Christopher Columbus, as with all legends, involves a series of great successes and horrible failures.

Columbus’s current favorability rating hovers somewhere close to those of Hillary Clinton and...

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