We keep hearing about this onslaught against American history on part of progressives, yet the lack of conservative interest in being a citizen historian means very few are rising to meet the challenge.
People just seem to want to engage in the political process and nothing more.
As to where to locate a good book about Christopher Columbus,(it was asked) I don’t have a direct answer in the sense that I know definitively “this is the book to read” because I’ll be honest, I have not read it. However I think it would probably be safe to start with Washington Irving’s 1828 book about Columbus. Free to read here:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_Life_and_Voyages_of_Chr/V0i3w-c9__cC?gbpv=1
Thank you! Ernle Bradford and Edard Everett Hale appear to have substantial works available as well.
One thing I find frustrating with history works written in the 19th and early 20th centuries (and earlier) is a woodenness, coupled with complicated compound sentences, that leave the cerebral mechanism gasping for simplicity.
I work with the biblical texts and their various translations as a part time profession. Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian, could use the equivalent of a “Living Bible” translation as a way to invite the reader into his world. I reckon that won’t happen any time soon.