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Conversations are emerging about the Christopher Columbus statue that once stood outside of city hall

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Five years after its removal, new conversations are emerging about the Christopher Columbus statue that once stood outside of city hall. City leaders announced the statue ...
New York Post

Columbus was a hero who heightened humanity’s horizons — Mamdani, show some respect

Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he wants the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate two Christopher Columbus statues. He deserves thanks for agreeing to take a long-overdue step to ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Editor’s Notes: Columbus Day’s long voyage

Public officials who have fallen victim to brief, distorted and whitewashed versions of the Christopher Columbus story that appeared in mid- to late-19th Century elementary school history ...
Forbes

Meet 4 Plants Brought To The New World By Columbus That Quickly Became ‘American Mainstays’ — A Biologist Explains

Christopher Columbus and other early European explorers were best known for the “new” lands they discovered and the people they transported. But there’s another side to the story, and it has to do ...