Leid Stories—Columbus Day: Celebrating A Man Who Never Even Set Foot On the Land He Supposedly Discovered—10.09.17

He didn’t know where he was going when he left, didn’t know where he was when he got there, and didn’t know where he’d been when he got back. Not quite a strong resume for an explorer, but America has been observing Columbus Day since 1937, marking Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492.

World-renowned scholar Dr. Ivan van Sertimer lays bare glaring incongruities and outright lies that have propped up many myths of Columbus’s exploits while denying early and beneficial African contacts and relationships with ancient Olmec civilizations.