Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, moved to Portugal in 1476 to start a mapmaking business. At the time, called the Age of Exploration, Portugal was a leader, having already discovered the ...

Someone else eventually would have located the New World. But Columbus’s exploits were widely noted and studied. The consequences of discovery for indigenous peoples—conquest and disease ...

Columbus deserves little credit (Leif Erikson had “discovered” the “new” continent 500 years earlier) and much blame for the horrors of the Columbian Exchange — the vast transfer of ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

When Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, his journey prompted the exchange of not only information but also food, animals, insects, plants and disease between the continents. In a new book ...

Columbus’ Confusion About the New World The European discovery of America opened possibilities for those with eyes to see. But Columbus was not one of them ...

It was known that Columbus had a personal African slave on his voyages of discovery. It is unknown whether the individual studied by Price and his colleagues was a slave or a crew member. The new ...

On Columbus Day, the country commemorates the grand global changes — discoveries and destruction alike — that unfolded after Christopher Columbus linked the New World and the Old.

For a sailor who didn’t know where he was going, didn’t know where he was when he got there and didn’t know where he had been after he got back from where he started from, Christo… ...

As a case in point, Christopher Columbus argued in “The Book of Prophecies” that his discovery of the New World was part of a divinely ordained plan for the End Times, recasting Bible passages ...

In "1493," author Charles C. Mann traces the changes wrought by Columbus' discovery of America, from the worldwide spread of potatoes to the introduction of malaria.