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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Columbus’s first voyage to the New World was one of the formative events of human history. But who was Christopher Columbus? Renowned historian and biographer Bergreen (Marco Polo) seeks to illuminate ...

Columbus brought low just eight years after his dauntless journey to discover a new world, Columbus disgraced and under suspicion. The center of the book is the story of Christopher Columbus' fourth ...

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 ...

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 ...

Columbus' 4th voyage has been a total failure: he has not found the westward passage, he has no gold to show, he has lost men and ships and his efforts to build a colony have fallen through. The ...