There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewhat ...

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.

Christopher Columbus’s three ships—the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria—first landed on a beach of a small island within the Bahamas Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 12, 1492. The natives called ...

Forget everything you know about the United States of America. It is not united anymore, but divided into several independent ...

Christopher Columbus’s fortunes have changed over the past several decades. Monuments that once celebrated his memory have been toppled or spattered with paint. Disdain for his colonialist ways is ...

Christopher Columbus, an Italian mariner, led four transatlantic expeditions for Spain, initiating sustained European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His voyages marked the first ...