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 ...

As described in Maria Rosa Monacal’s 2002 book, “The Ornament of the World,” Torres left with Columbus’s first voyage on August 3, 1492, a day after the Spanish Edict of Expulsion ordered ...

The last time Christie’s sold a copy of a famed 15th-century pamphlet announcing Christopher Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was in 1992, and it did not end well.

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 ...

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.

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.

Consider the first voyage of Columbus. Initially, the explorer was repelled by indigenous tribes from landing on the northern coast of Hispaniola and forced to later land on what is now Santo ...

I mention Columbus because, as I wrote recently, my wife and I spent eight days last month in the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico. And on that first full day, weset out on our own voyage of ...

The expulsion of Jews from Spain took place in 1492, the same year as Columbus' famed first voyage. The tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville Cathedral on June 25, 2016.