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  1. HIS'rORY TODAY Father of America: An engraving of 1867 shows Columbus the figurehead of the United States. seen not as affirmations of a unified world but rather as evidence of the continuing claims of Europe to be top dog. In this atmosphere Columbus is more likely to be hailed as the inventor of New World slavery than praised as the father of ...

  2. x The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas interlibrary loan office. Thank you also to the cheerful and effi-cient Jennifer Kniesch, Visual Resources Librarian at the Art and Art History Department, for helping me locate images and secure permission to use them. I have benefited much from the generosity and insight of

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  3. 1 Columbus never mentions the name of the ship in which he sailed. It was owned by Juan de la Cosa of Santona. Oviedo calls it the Gallega,· Herrera, the Santa il1"aria. It was the largest, about 100 tons. The others were two caravels of Palos, called the Pinta and Nina. The Pinta was commanded by Martin Alonso Pinzon, and

  4. I n fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Christopher Columbus sailed in from the blue. American history books present Columbus pretty much without prece-dent, and they portray him as America's first great hero. In so canonizing him, they reflect our national culture. Indeed, now that President's Day has combined

  5. What happened on Columbuss first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left

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  6. Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal. This document is from the journal of Columbus in his voyage of 1492. The meaning of this voyage is highly contested. On the one hand, it is witness to the tremendous vitality and verve of late medieval and early modern Europe - which was on the verge of acquiring a world hegemony.

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  8. May 2, 2014 · real Columbus. Such, it seems, is the fate of historical figures whose deeds rever-berate through time. The Columbus story surely confirms the axiom that all work s of history are in-terim reports. What people did in the past is not preserved in amber, a moment cap-tured and immutable through the ages. Each generation looks back and, drawing

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