Christopher Columbus and The Myth of ‘America’

Happy Columbus Day
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two …
May the spirit of adventure and discovery always be with you.
Wishing you a great Columbus Day

– Columbus Day greeting card

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By Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola
t r u t h o u t | Feature

To mark Columbus Day In 2004, the Medieval and Renaissance Center in UCLA published the final volume of a compendium of…