Ronald Reagan: Christopher Columbus Was The Inventor Of The American Dream

Mark Antonio Wright offered an interesting and fair piece in National Review last year on the two views of Christopher Columbus, whom President Ronald Reagan called "the inventor of the American Dream."

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425389/christopher-columbus-hero-or-villain

Celebrating Columbus

As History.com notes, on this day in history Columbus discovered America, forever changing the world.

You can read the History.com piece via the below link:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbus-reaches-the-new-world?et_cid=82082581&et_rid=1227406676&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fcolumbus-reaches-the-new-world

You can also read a piece on Columbus (hero or villain?) in National Review by Mark Antonio Wright via the below link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425389/christopher-columbus-hero-or-villain