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Landings: Heroes or Villains?
Was Christopher Columbus a hero, a villain, or something farmore complicated? On Columbus Day 2026, Dave Bowman challenges the popularmythology surrounding the voyage of 1492 and asks whether modern culture hasforgotten how to recognize human achievement without ignoring human failure.
Columbus didn't prove the Earth was round. EducatedEuropeans already knew that. His mathematics weren't necessarily as foolish aspopular accounts suggest, and he wasn't the first European to reach theAmericas. Yet his voyage aboard the Niña, Pinta, and SantaMaría helped transform world history.
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