People who achieve big things often make big mistakes, and so it is for Columbus. As for me, I'd rather pin the blame on Amerigo Vespucci. He's the one who wrote the book that put America on the ...

A figure on the corner of the Christopher Columbus Memorial in Grant Park appeared to be Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini, according to a Tribune reader’s observation in 1963. Amerigo Bri ...

Fuson, who penned an English-language translation of “The Log of Christopher Columbus“: “Those who ... many hardships in the land named for Amerigo Vespucci. In 1879, while striking for ...

Christopher Columbus famously set sail in 1492 with ... as a new continent named America after another Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci. Lithograph by Martin Waldseemuller via Bridgeman Images ...