Never mind the disease and slavery wrought by Christopher Columbus’ voyage – or the fact that he didn’t actually “discover” the New World. President Donald Trump’s first presidential proclamation of ...

In our last article, we discussed Christopher Columbus’ motivation to persevere through ridicule and the pressures of money and time to finally set sail for the new world — speculated to be in the ...

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 ...

The U.S. has returned to Italy a letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493 announcing his discovery of the New World that was stolen from a Florence library and unwittingly acquired by the ...

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 ...

Far from being the cause of prying the European imagination loose from the church, Christopher Columbus’ voyages were the consequence of established European curiosity and technology. The interaction ...

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The day in 1492 when Columbus ran into a cluster of islands blocking his way to India is celebrated throughout Latin America and in Spain. It is now fixed in the United States as the second Monday in ...

Monday is the 79th anniversary of the federal government’s making Columbus Day a holiday. To be sure, Americans celebrated Oct. 12 long before 1937. But the holiday has fallen on hard times in recent ...

"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 ...

If you’ve ever wanted to step aboard a ship like the ones used by Christopher Columbus, this is your chance. Replica ships of the Niña and Pinta docked in Louisville Tuesday evening. The ships, owned ...

Sometimes people discover something that feels good and it changes their lives. Take Chris Columbus (“Home Alone,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”). For five years at NYU he worked closely ...