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 ...

Timothy Herrick would have us believe that “Christopher Columbus Drive is the Jersey City equivalent of Confederate statues – and as horrifying.” Mr. Herrick weaves an incoherent tapestry of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether that would have been for good or ill is, like the impact of Columbus' voyages, still open to debate among culinarians and historians. There can be no argument that the arrival of the grand ...