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Christopher Columbus monument close to Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain (Getty Images/hutchyb)

Forget Columbus — the church was worse

Celia Viggo Wexler
The Moon and the Peloponnesian War (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How lunar eclipses changed history

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's unhinged "American heroes" list

Ashlie D. Stevens
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Columbus Day is giving people pause

Malinda Maynor Lowery - The Conversation
Olin Tezcatlipoca from the Mexica Movement speaks to demonstrators in front of a statue of Christopher Columbus during a protest against Columbus Day in Grand Park, Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2015. The Mexica Movement is amongst a growing group of people and US cities that want change the name of the 'Columbus Day' holiday to 'Indigenous Peoples Day. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

The truth about Columbus Day, explained

Matthew Rozsa
Christopher Columbus Monument in Baltimore, Maryland (AP)

Christopher Columbus in the New World

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
John Kelly (AP/Luis Soto)

John Kelly bungles Civil War facts

Matthew Rozsa
Indigenous People's Day - The Daily Wire (YouTube/The Daily Wire)

Daily Wire's racist Columbus Day cartoon

Gabriel Bell
(Getty/Ilya S. Savenok/duncan1890/Salon)

O'Reilly accidentally debunks Columbus

Jeremy Binckes
(Wikimedia)

How Columbus became a national symbol

William Francis Keegan - The Conversation
Christopher Columbus (Getty/Hulton Archive / Stringer)

Columbus descendant butchers history

Matthew Rozsa
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Columbus Day is not a day of hope

Jeremy Lent
Christopher Columbus (Getty/Hulton Archive / Stringer)

columbus history fail

Matthew Rozsa
Christopher Columbus Monument in Baltimore, Maryland (AP)

See Columbus monument smashed

Rachel Leah
Ta'Sina Sapa Win of South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation chants in front of police during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline outside Saint Anthony, North Dakota, October 5, 2016. (Reuters/Terray Sylvester)

It's 1492 all over again

Alli Joseph
(Wikimedia)

#ColumbusWasAHero?

Scott Eric Kaufman
"Threat Down" with Stephen Colbert (Comedy Central)

Sarah Gray
(Wikimedia)

Everybody, hate Chris!

Elias Isquith

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta
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