The Trump administration plans to place a statue of Christopher Columbus on the south side of the White House. The post ...

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 ...

Approximately 1000 men traveled to the New World with Christopher Columbus on his second transcontinental crossing in 1493. Their mission was to colonize. Here are the animals they brought with them.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And however difficult that first voyage with the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria was, it was a pleasure cruise compared to the rough seas he's had to ...

When we think about the voyages of Christopher Columbus, we often think only about the effects they had on the New World. But, equally important was the transfer of goods from west to east. A ...

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 ...

The image and story of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century navigator who began European incursions into the Americas, have changed in the U.S. over the decades. Columbus was an obscure figure until ...

"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 ...