Few people have been rejoiced and reviled as much as Christoper Columbus. This U. of Virginia website article summarizes it well
"By the Quincentenary of 1992, Columbus had been virtually stripped of all positive symbolic meaning. The pendulum has swung, and now he "is the post-colonial and demythologized Columbus. He has been stripped of the symbolic cloak of optimism and exposed as a human being whose flaws were many and of reverberating consequence."
But today we celebrate his role as entrepreneur and the role he played in shaping the American pioneering spirit
"Randolph Roger's massive bronze Columbus Doors (at the Rotunda in the US Capitol building in Washington, DC) express this vision of Columbus, the ultimate visual expression of America's self-identity as embodied in the explorer."
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