Approximately 1000 men traveled to the New World with Christopher Columbus on his second transcontinental crossing in 1493. Their mission was to colonize. Here are the animals they brought with them.

NMAI copy 39088017837824 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. "Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape ...

“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became one of the most famous people of all history and, we might say, the greatest ...