What is America?

What America means to you may be completely different than what it means to other people, especially people from Latin America. In the USA America is a country, but it wasn't always like that. The founding fathers usually referred to the former British colonies as the United States or The Union, not America. In the 19th century, the USA had a nickname, which was Columbia. However, that nickname was eventually abandoned. Then in the early 20th century we started to see how the term America was beginning to be used to refer to the United States. Join me in this episode as I explore the origins of the word America, and how its meaning changed over time.