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 ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family "because from it I came 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 ...

"A condensation of my two-volume Admiral of the ocean sea, published at the same time. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigation data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to stir fascination and fierce debate. His historic Atlantic crossings in 1492 are famous worldwide, but his legacy remains deeply tangled in ...

Columbus is the size of life, richly drest, with a drawn sword in his hand, at the time he set his foot on the New World, which he had discovered. The portrait of Columbus is copied from the original ...

When it comes to Christopher Columbus, President Donald Trump just gets it. He knows that Oct. 13 is Columbus Day and that the second Monday in October is reserved to celebrate Columbus Day. No amount ...

Five years after it was splattered with red paint, toppled and dragged into a lake, the bronze statue of Christopher Columbus that stood for nearly a century in a city park in Richmond, Virginia, has ...