A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the ...

Christopher Columbus may have been the first European to land on Puerto Rico's shores, but touring San Juan will tell you ...

We need not deride Columbus' reluctance to give up the world that he knew from books. Only idiots escape entirely from the world that the past bequeaths. The discovery of America opened a new ...

President Benjamin Harrison, in 1892, proclaimed “the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States.” “On that day ...

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas ... in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America. While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European ...

Rosa’s theory, although exotic, helps explain certain facts from Columbus’ life. Namely, his marriage to a Portuguese aristocrat which occurred long before he became famous for discovering America, ...

Columbus became famous as the man who discovered new lands called the Americas ... One thing we can say for certain is that finding the continent of America was a huge event for Europeans ...