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Is it true that John Cabot rather than Columbus was popularly considered as the Western "discoverer of America" in the US until Italian-Americans strongly lobbied for Columbus to be treated as such to cement their place in the American national tradition?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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