olivia’s Reviews > A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present > Status Update

“to emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves—unwittingly—to justify what was done.”

restarting this after i abandoned it for over a year, so glad i’m getting back to it.