As a reward, his Spanish benefactors, Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, said Columbus would be entitled to ten percent of all the ...

“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became one of the most famous people of all history and, we might say, the greatest ...

The story of America’s discovery is often simplified to Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. However, the true history is far more intricate, layered with forgotten explorers, ...

In a fiery holiday proclamation, the president refused to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples' Day, instead reclaiming Columbus Day as a federal holiday and glorifying the Italian explorer as "the original ...