Tag / christopher columbus

by john paul jaramillo

representations of columbus

Christopher_ColumbusColumbus owes Washington Irving quite a bit.  Also his portrait/face has never been authenticated. In fact, Charles Patrick Daly calls this painting from 1592 “pure fancy.”

Not much changed in these different cartoon and feature film representations of Columbus:

 
  
  
by john paul jaramillo

pop culture as history and christopher columbus

406px-PeopleshistoryzinnPrepping a lecture on Howard Zinn A People’s History of the United States, post-strucuralist analysis and Christopher Columbus. But I’m lazy and probably going to rely on Robert Wuhl’s Assume the Position.