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...global authority not even Henry Adams could have foreseen. Yet we seem not in the celebrating mood. Chicago turned down the honor of mounting another Columbian Exposition. Our federal commission on the quincentennial floundered in scandal and ineptitude during the six years John Goudie presided over it. The Columbus now being described is a rather bedraggled figure, a symbol of empire in a postcolonial age, when most of the world is celebrating the breakup of empires, not their inception. The facts ! about Columbus always mattered less, to his admirers, than the uses he could be put to. Those uses have...
Multiculturalism is not a plot of some left-wing professors in the U.S.; it is the most obvious of global facts, in a world where the "natives" are telling Columbus how to behave, rather than the reverse. That, oddly, is a cause for celebration. The next century will not be America's to call its own -- or any other single nation's. We are all in one boat together, and Columbus must travel with us now as a fellow passenger, no longer the skipper...
...500th anniversary of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus added to the primary evidence about him -- what he did, how he thought, what kind of man he was? Not by much...
...letters to or by Columbus have been found. Neither have traces of any wrecked ships from his four voyages, though newly found documents in Seville have cast some light on the rigging and fitting of the little Nina...
...Columbus left 39 men from the crew of the wrecked Santa Maria to fend for themselves at La Navidad in Haiti. When he came back for them on his second voyage, they had all been killed by the Lucayo tribesmen. Archaeologists at this first Spanish settlement in the Americas have dug out some shards of Venetian glass and the bones of a 15th century pig. At Isabela in the Dominican Republic, where Columbus founded Spain's first colony on his second voyage in 1493, some evidence is turning up about the layout of the town, its artifacts (including a crucifix...