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Everybody knows Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. But years later, in 1500, he would make an even more precarious voyage. Stripped of his title, accused of heresy and theft, Columbus was ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on one of the most consequential expeditions in history. He and his crew spent more than a month at sea and eventually landed upon the New World. But the journey ...

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.

Timothy Herrick would have us believe that “Christopher Columbus Drive is the Jersey City equivalent of Confederate statues – and as horrifying.” Mr. Herrick weaves an incoherent tapestry of ...

Christopher Columbus changed the world, as few other men have ever changed it, bringing together the unknown and the known. Yet remarkably, the great explorer went to his grave ignorant of his great ...

"Slightly altered and corrected republication in one volume of nos. LXV and LXX of the second series of works published by The Hakluyt Society, London, in 1930 and 1933, respectively, under the title ...

Patrick T. Conley is Rhode Island's historian laureate. Christopher Columbus, whose memorial statuary in the United States is exceeded only by Lincoln and Washington, is lately encountering very rough ...

Public officials who have fallen victim to brief, distorted and whitewashed versions of the Christopher Columbus story that appeared in mid- to late-19th Century elementary school history textbooks ...

“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 ...