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🗓️ 7 October 2024
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Did Columbus really think the Earth was flat? Where did he come from? Where did he get to? To untangle the myths of Columbus and his complicated legacy, Don spoke to Elise Bartosik-Velez.
Elise teaches at Dickinson college about Latin American history and literature, focusing in particular on the Colonial Period through Independence. She is the author of 'The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire'.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Max Carrey. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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0:39.5 | UK. It is September 30th, 1934 at the White House. |
0:50.0 | President Franklin D Roosevelt, going on two years into his presidency and deep in the trenches in the fight against the Great Depression |
0:56.7 | is pushing his new deal programs to provide relief to struggling Americans |
1:02.1 | jobs are still scarce but many of those employed have mobilised, |
1:06.0 | striking for better wages, calling for safer working conditions, |
1:10.0 | and demanding an end to bias based on religious and ethnic discrimination. |
1:15.4 | Leading the charge are the Knights of Columbus, founded in 1882 |
1:19.8 | to advocate for and support Italian Americans in their adopted society. |
1:24.3 | The Knights have petitioned the federal government |
1:27.4 | to recognize October 12th as a national holiday |
1:30.7 | to honor their patron Christopher Columbus, the great explorer, and |
1:34.2 | symbol for Italian Americans of acceptance and belonging on the shores he |
1:38.9 | once claimed for Spain. Inside the Oval Office, surrounded by leaders of the Knights and other In President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the |
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