In the U.S., Christopher Columbus is being reevaluated in terms of the ethics of his actions, but the same isn't happening in Italy.

Columbus first landed in the Bahamas in 1492 sailing on behalf of the Spanish crown in a new attempt to find a western route to Asia. He made four voyages...

This Encyclopedia Britannica History list provides 5 strange facts about Christopher Columbus and his voyages.

Ashland University’s David Tucker writes about Columbus Day: Europeans acted the way that conquerors always did. We judge them harshly because they spread a then-novel idea: equality.

The explorer Christopher Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. His most famous was his first voyage, commanding the ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria to the Americas.

Christopher Columbus by José Roldán Martínez

Different genetic laboratories will analyze samples of the mortal remains of relatives of Pedro Alvarez de Sotomayor, nicknamed Pedro Madruga, exhumed last week from two sarcophagi in the church of the convent of Santo Domingo in Tui, in Galicia (northern Spain), to determine if the remains are in fact those of Christopher Columbus. The quite complex task will be to try to extract DNA from remains buried in the 15th century to match them with the mortal remains of Christopher Columbus or his…

Statues of Christopher Columbus are being vandalized throughout the U.S. in the wake of protests against racial inequality.