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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Columbus, whose holiday is celebrated Monday, made five trips to the New World. Four came when he was alive. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Spain says it has the remains of ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

ROME (AP) — 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 ...