“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became one of the most famous people of all history and, we might say, the greatest ...

While this iconoclasm may seem to be a late 20th-century development (one that culminated in the 21st century with the destruction of multiple statues of the Genoese mariner during the George Floyd ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It has been decades in the making, the delegitimization of Christopher ...