“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became ...

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 ...

On a calm Jan. day in 1493, as his ships moved through the waters near what is now the Dominican Republic, Christopher Columbus paused to make an observation that would echo through history and ...

While this iconoclasm may seem to be a late 20th-century development (one that culminated in the 21st century with the destruction of multiple statues of the Genoese mariner during the George Floyd ...

Christopher Columbus's four voyages between 1492 and 1504 opened Europe's gateway to the Americas. These expeditions initiated the Columbian Exchange, a vast transfer of goods and peoples. Columbus's ...