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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Columbus is often credited with discovering America, but that was never his true goal. Driven by wealth, power, ...

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 ...

ROME -- The United States has returned to Italy a letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493 about his discovery of the New World that was stolen from a Florence library and unwittingly acquired ...

A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage was auctioned by Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to ensure this one wasn’t forged or stolen. By Julia Jacobs The last time ...

Across the United States, many celebrate Columbus Day, a controversial federal holiday observed every year on the second Monday in October. It was named after Christopher Columbus, the man credited ...

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