Summary: Globalization Since 1492 Class #1 January 11, 2006 Walls and Bridges Convergences and Networks. Part 3 Rethinking Columbus Leading up to the 1992 quincentenery of Christopher Columbus discovery of America there was a surge of dissent against the celebration of a moment that had led to the conquest of the western hemisphere by Europeans. We see here a document exposed from 1775 by William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts outlining bounties that would be paid for bringing in captured Indians or scalps of dead Indians. Henry Ford was a huge supporter of the Nazi movement. He published the Dearborn Independent and used this paper to print anti-Semitic propaganda.
