In elementary school, I learned a rhyme about Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. High school expanded that understanding to a still-simple narrative: Very few people lived in the ...

Christopher Columbus, once commemorated for the grandest achievement of human history, connecting two worlds in 1492, is now the ... and peaceful nature in his journal (Columbus, Journal ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th ... the voyage would help spread Christianity into the East. In August 1492, Columbus’s expedition set sail with three ships: the Niña, Pinta, and ...

marking Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas in 1492. The Italian explorer has traditionally been lauded in school classrooms as the "discoverer" of the Americas. In more recent years ...

Was Christopher Columbus a heroic explorer or a villainous murderer? It depends on who you ask. The tussle over how or whether the United States should commemorate the Italian navigator’s 1492 ...

Christopher Columbus was likely ... research will appear in an international scientific journal in the near future. Researchers who study Columbus say the purported findings are of only limited ...