In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue-but why did he sign his name like that?

Oct. 10 (UPI) --In advance Monday's holiday, the White House this week released a statement celebrating Columbus Day and singing the praises of the maligned explorer. "This Columbus Day, we honor his ...

Christopher Columbus’ life is being reconsidered as new scholarship and scientific analysis challenge established narratives about his origins, achievements, and final years. Evidence from historians ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In all his years as an expert in Latin American history, Matthew Restall never had much interest in Christopher Columbus as a subject. “It just never seemed a current or ...

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 ...