Was Columbus’ Voyage to the “New World” Driven by Islamophobia? Popular views of the explorer see him as intrepid adventurer or bungling murderer. But he was also a religious crusader.

Where does a 500-ton, 31-story, multimillion-dollar sculpture of Christopher Columbus stand? Apparently, not just anywhere it wants. But after almost a decade adrift, “Birth of the New World&… ...

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

Columbus’ voyage was not, as is commonly believed, funded by the deep pockets of Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos and another prominent Jew.

Scott Simon talks with Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus. Dugard delves into the rarely portrayed final journey of the famous explorer. Columbus's problems began, ironically ...

A huge replica of a historic ship has docked in Essex for a week - and fans will now be able to pay it a visit. The ...

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’ voyages sparked an odyssey. “Rough-cut seamen, adventurous merchants, penurious hidalgos, and scions of noble families tumbled out of the Iberian Peninsula like oranges from an ...

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.

Columbus conducted raids in Hispaniola; they collected about 1,500 people, and of those 1,500 people, 500 were selected to be brought back to the slave market in Seville, [Spain]; 500 others were ...