The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

The full-scale replica of Christopher Columbus’s famous flagship from his 1492 voyage will be open to the public ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

A replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, the Pinta makes its way into the Michigan City Port Wednesday morning accompanied by a replica of the Nina. The ships will be docked near Millennium Park ...

I mention Columbus because, as I wrote recently, my wife and I spent eight days last month in the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico. And on that first full day, weset out on our own voyage of discovery.

The American origins of Columbus Day have less to do with Christopher Columbus and his voyages to the Caribbean and more to do with the mistreatment of Catholic Americans.

Who was this mysterious Galway man who sailed with Columbus on his first voyage to the west in 1492? In a box in the archives of the National University of Ireland Galway, there is a bundle of ...

The expulsion of Jews from Spain took place in 1492, the same year as Columbus' famed first voyage. The tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville Cathedral on June 25, 2016. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) ...

The last time Christie’s sold a copy of a famed 15th-century pamphlet announcing Christopher Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was in 1992, and it did not end well.

This year marks the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first Transatlantic expedition, a voyage that the Italian explorer expected would take him to Asia. Instead, his crew sighted land ...