When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean and touched down in North America in 1492, he changed the world forever. He bridged the "old" world in Europe, Africa, and Asia with the "new ...

America. 2. Christopher Columbus, a dead white male of the worst variety, was a slaver, a capitalist, and a murderer of millions who embarked on a voyage motivated only by greed, which brought ...

Morison '07 professor of History, and his Columbus ... Central America according to the courses, mapped out by the old records, when they left the island of Triuidad which they reached on December ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America and South America). Born in Genoa ...

Some claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Are the claims true? Every elementary school student knows the story of Christopher Columbus ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus remains a subject of intrigue and debate worldwide. His historic 1492 voyages across the Atlantic are widely recognized, but his legacy is fraught with ...

A number of cities across America have already swapped it for Indigenous Peoples' Day. Detractors argue Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus brought ... explorer to reach the continent in 1497 ...

When Americans looked for founder-heroes in the early years of the republic, authors such as Washington Irving (The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1828) documented Columbus’s story.

Columbus thought he had reached the Indies ... certain is that finding the continent of America was a huge event for Europeans, and that is down to Christopher Columbus.