'If we are to cancel a national holiday honoring Italian-Americans, we should replace it with another and name it after a more fitting, less problematic representative'
With so many great Italians and Italian-Americans to choose from, who would be the best figure to take Columbus’s place? Other Italian explorers like Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, and Giovanni da Verrazzano are less monstrous than Columbus, but suffer from the same association with colonialism. Enrico Fermi, perhaps the most famous Italian-American scientist, is problematic for his work on the Manhattan Project.
Another standout possibility is Giuseppe Garibaldi, the 19th-century Italian general and patriot. Garibaldi is one of Italy’s founding fathers, a national hero who played an essential role in the unification of Italy, fought for its independence, and supported several republican and liberation movements in Europe and South America throughout his storied military career. Famouslyby the historian A.J.P.
At the time of the Civil War, Garibaldi was world-famous for his exploits in Italy, where in 1860 he had invaded and conquered Sicily with an army of about a thousand volunteers. A volunteer infantry regiment in New York was even named after him. Garibaldi himself was interested in assisting the Union, and President Lincolnto enlist the Italian general and put him in command of U.S.
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