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M any people helped me as I wrote this book. Michael Palencia-Roth has been an unfailing mentor and model of ethical, rigorous scholarship and human compassion. I am grateful for his generous help at many stages of writing this manuscript. I am also indebted to my friend Christopher Francese, of the Department of Classical Studies at Dickinson College, who has never hesitated to answer my queries about pretty much anything related to the classical world. His intellectual curiosity and commitment to academic inquiry is inspiring. I thank him for meticulously reviewing many of the translations from Latin in this book and for making helpful comments on the drafts of my essay regarding Peter Martyr. I wish to thank Eli Bortz at Vanderbilt University Press for his faith in this project. I also thank Sue Havlish, Joell Smith-Borne, and copyeditor extraordinaire Laura Fry at Vanderbilt. I am also grateful to Silvia Benvenuto for the index. A special thanks to the anonymous readers whose careful reading significantly improved this book. Thank you to Ken Ward, librarian at the John Carter Brown Library, for scrounging up all kinds of gems for the sake of intellectual inquiry and friendship. I am also grateful to Cristóbal Macías Villalobos at the Universidad de Málaga for helping me understand more about the Romans and their language. I wish to thank Dickinson College and the Dickinson College Research and Development Committee for its generous financial support of this project and to my colleagues at Dickinson who make this a vibrant intellectual community. Thank you to Kristin Beach and Ursala Neuwirth, my Dana Research Assistants funded by Dickinson. I am grateful to the library staff at Dickinson, especially Tina Maresco and everyone in the x The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas interlibrary loan office. Thank you also to the cheerful and efficient 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 many fellow colleagues who have willingly shared material and/ or their work over the years, including Scott Breuninger, Lina del Castillo, Karen Racine, and fellow Columbus scholars Jenny Heil and Carol Delaney. I thank many friends and colleagues who have shared their expertise with me at various points in the development of this book, as well as those who have commented on various bits (long or short) of the manuscript.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY, 2023
Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America; he was a daring navigator, brave and intrepid, ambitious and cruel with the Indians, admired and blessed in some countries and hated in others. Was Columbus a great man? The history of the discovery of America and the voyages of Christopher Columbus are reviewed. Comments are provided on the judgment of history regarding Columbus from Europe, Spain, the USA, and Latin America.
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This article, originally published in The History Teacher in 1992, surveys the treatment of Christopher Columbus in books published in the United States from the late 18th to the late 20th century. Despite a wealth of serious scholarship about the explorer and his times, over time the image of Columbus has often been delineated according to political and societal agendas, rather than by a search for accuracy.
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nesigned to complement the traditional textbook treatment of Columbus, the lessons in this packet utilize recent research, primary sources, and active student involvement. The first two lessons, "Columbus: The Man and the Myth" and "Columbus and the Known World: How Much Did He Really Know?," (D. Beal) provide students with opportunities to learn about Columbus as , person and dispel the commonlyheld view that everyone in 1492 believed the world was flat. "Who Discovered America" (C. Risinger) uses cooperative learning techniques to teach abLut other explorers who preceded Columbus and why his voyage receives the most attention. "A Mystery in History" (E. Holt) examines the current debate about the actual site where Columbus landed on October 12, 1492. The second