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By resurrecting statues toppled in protests during his first term, Donald Trump wants to reverse attempts to ‘erase history’. But history is never that simple.
President Trump’s politics of resentment recall the US colonial era, when grievances fueled rage and violence.
Claims about Columbus being Sephardic have bubbled up for decades. Early in the 20th century, some immigrant groups hoped proving ties to him would improve their own social standing.
Many US states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer – and even more fraught – history in Latin America.
Popular culture often describes scalping − the forceful removing of a person’s scalp − as an indigenous practice. But white settlers accelerated this form of violence against Native Americans.
A memorial to Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. has received stinging criticisms, but time will tell whether ‘The Embrace’ will endure as a cherished work of public art.
Columbus’s was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.
The idea that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas and returned home with others has been widely accepted. But evidence is mounting that for syphilis this scenario is wrong.
Given Italian history, U.S. descendants of Italian immigrants have reason to reject their association with Columbus and stand in solidarity with indigenous groups as they reclaim their histories.
Huge blooms of brown seaweed have fouled Florida and Caribbean beaches almost every year over the past decade. They originate in Africa and South America. and are fueled by human activities.
Mermaids are not real, but are meaningful to people around the world.
The long history of celebrating Christopher Columbus discovering America is being challenged by indigenous voices and perspectives.
The official celebration of Native Americans represents the fruits of a decades-long effort.
No records of the size of Native American populations before 1492 and the arrival of Europeans survive. A new study has found answers.
Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage was really a journey into the unknown. Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and ‘monstrous men’ would be awaiting him.
As debates over protests during the national anthem continue to rage, two scholars examine how legal and moral battles over the merits of patriotism in public schools have been playing out for years.
An anthropologist tells the story of how Columbus actually came close to falling into historical obscurity, until American hubris got in the way.
An anthropologist tells the story of how Columbus actually came close to falling into historical obscurity, until American hubris got in the way.
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas they didn’t just make human history – they changed planet Earth forever.
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Curator of Caribbean Archaeology, University of Florida
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds, UCL
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Head of Geospatial at Trove Research, University of Hong Kong
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Professor of Climate Science (UCL Geography), UCL
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Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
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Research Associate in History, Smith College
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Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Professor, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University
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Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program, University of Washington