Making Thirteen Colonies. Public Interest | September 22, 1998| | COPYRIGHT 1998 The National Affairs, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

When Christopher Columbus kissed the ground of the new world in 1492, he was on terra firma; five centuries later, of course, we find the great navigator on shaky ground. Under the weighty dictates of what is known as political correctness, the monumental nature of Columbus's epic achievement crumbles as the very meaning of discovery - or, in current parlance, "discovery" - is called into question. Accordingly, Columbus didn't discover America; the islands that became known as a part of the "New World" were already inhabited. In the shank of this century, to "celebrate" ...

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