Resources: Columbus

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A Young People's History of the United States

A two volume adaptation of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States. This adapted version covers key parts of US history starting with Columbus. Zinn pays special attention to issues of race, class, gender and power and the great soci

Type: Book: Non-Fiction • Grade Level: 4 - 12
Categories: US Mexican War/Relations 
Keywords: justice  Columbus  workers  labor  racism 

Bartolome de las Casas: Champion of Indian Rights

A brief biography of a very important person in the history of the Americas. He came to the Americas as a slave owning priest, but once in the Caribbean realized the horrors that the Spanish colonialists were inflicting on the native Taino populations. Th

Type: Book: Non-Fiction • Grade Level: 4 - 12
Categories: Globalization  Imperialism/peace  Native Americans  Racism  White privilege 
Keywords: Columbus  Tainos 

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