During the four voyages Columbus made to the New World, he set foot on islands such ... Luis de Santángel, about his discovery. This letter was later reprinted and read by many people.

But it was Columbus' activities in the years that followed, says writer Charles C. Mann, that really created the New World. When Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, his journey prompted the ...

which brought European imperialism to the shores of the “New World” and laid waste the ancient indigenous peoples there. Columbus deserves little credit (Leif Erikson had “discovered” the ...

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 ...

If confirmed, that would put Africans in the New World as contemporaries of Columbus and decades before ... and analysis on everything from dinosaur discoveries, archaeological finds and amazing ...

The day Columbus discovered America ... The “Indies” not of the Old World, but of a New World. A 3,000-mile arc — a discontinuous bridge of islands — between the north and south landmasses ...

It was a small round object sent around the planet, and it changed the course of human history. Call it “Spudnik.” It was a potato. On Columbus Day, the country commemorates the grand global ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, bringing to the New World a bounty of wonder: coffee, horses, turnips, grapes, wine. But Columbus and his fellow explorers, in addition to bringing crops ...

Mann’s “1491” presented a picture of the Americas just before their discovery by Columbus and the scouring ... much different from the virgin world described by the pioneers.

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 ...