OPINION I used to defend Columbus as ‘magnificent.’ I don’t anymore. Reading what his contemporaries wrote about him opened my eyes.

The ship was part of the 1939 Harvard Columbus Expedition, a five-month voyage across the Atlantic. On board were a hodgepodge of academics, sailors, Harvard affiliates, and their wives.

After retracing part of Columbus’ first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue … and totally missed his mark. His journey may not have gone exactly as planned, but there were some interesting detours along the way.

In 1486, Columbus went to the Spanish monarchy of Queen Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their focus was on a war with the Muslims, and their nautical experts were skeptical, so they, ...

In a series of papal proclamations between 1452 and 1493 (the last precipitated by Columbus’ return from his first voyage to the Americas), a new theology crystalized for the new world.

Columbus police have charged a third man in connection with the April 14 shooting death of 13-year-old Angel Salguero Diaz.

The Dead Reckoner. In rediscovering what Columbus did, Author Morison also rediscovered who Columbus was. Just before his Third Voyage, Columbus de posed that he came originally from Genoa ...

It is known that during his third voyage Columbus sent to Spain the only map of his about the existence of which there is no doubt.