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Teaching Rethinking a Holiday

Rethinking a Holiday

Columbus Day has been an official U.S. holiday since 1937. But some people question the idea of celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the “New World.”

Andrew Matthews
Cricket Media

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Why have many people begun to question if the US should celebrate Columbus Day?
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