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The Sunday Best: Undoing Columbus

The Sunday Best: Undoing Columbus

10.11.21

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Abra Belke
Oct 11, 2021
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Over the past few years, I’ve learned that much of the American history I was taught in school was slanted at best, wrong at worst. And nowhere is the disparity between my grade school lessons and reality more pronounced than on the topic of Christopher Columbus.

Like many American children, I was taught that “in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” di…

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