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, ...

At first it seems an old story. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain on what he believed would be a shortcut to India and China. But instead of reaching those opulent kingdoms of ...

Columbus Day was first celebrated in New York in 1792, the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. A century later, Congress designated Columbus Day a national holiday to be celebrated each Oct ...

Samuel Eliot Morison was a professor at Harvard University, an admiral, historian of American naval adventures in World War II and a yachtsman who traced in his own vessel the voyage of Columbus ...

Columbus bids farewell to his son Diego at Palos, Spain, before embarking on his first voyage to find a passage to India by sailing west on August 3, 1492. Getty Images ...

Christopher Columbus ... who “sit safely at home” more than 500 years since Columbus’s voyage, ... The commentator Michael Knowles aptly notes that Columbus may well have been the first man ...

Two events conspired to ensure that the American affection for Columbus was no passing fad. First, ... the publication in 1828 of Washington Irving’s The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

Never mind the disease and slavery wrought by Christopher Columbus’ voyage – or the fact that he didn’t actually “discover” the New World. President Donald Trump’s first presidential ...

The voyages of Christopher Columbus represent a tremendous human achievement. Collectively, they symbolize a documented “first encounter.” For many, the journeys of Christopher Columbus ...

The Columbus letter is a copy of an account the explorer wrote about his journey to the New World that European printers turned into a pamphlet to spread news of the voyage across Europe. Photo: U ...