Christopher Columbus

Commentary There are many legends surrounding the discovery of the Americas: tales of Phoenician seafarers, Chinese explorers, Roman dissidents, West African traders with gold-tipped spears, and Irish monks, all long ...

Frederic March’s film portrayal of famed explorer is an inspiring role model.

It was this week in history, “on the third day of the month of August of the said ...

Workers in Philadelphia have removed the box that had been covering a Christopher Columbus statue since clashes in 2020 ...

Commentary One of the most notable attacks from the political left is on American history, with the 1619 ...

Commentary In today’s world of political correctness and the historical ignorance that seems to accompany it, the driving ...

Commentary Columbus Day is a perfect occasion to celebrate perhaps the greatest explorer of all time, Christopher Columbus. ...

Commentary Monday, Oct. 11, will mark the 50th Columbus Day in America since the first official federal holiday ...

PHILADELPHIA—A statue of Christopher Columbus can remain in south Philadelphia, a judge ruled, reversing the city's decision to ...

The school board in Randolph Township in Morris County, New Jersey, has reversed a decision to erase all ...

The social justice movement among America's youth that is tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus is based on ...

History is being rewritten on Christopher Columbus, and people are now being educated on a very different narrative ...

Richard Taylor, a history professor at St. John's University (SJU) in New York, has been punished for encouraging ...

When I was a boy living in Boonville, North Carolina, population then about 600, I loved reading histories ...

Prosecutors in Minnesota on Thursday filed a criminal damage to property charge against a man who admitted to ...

Police arrested several people after dispersing a crowd that sought to topple the statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown ...

A Christopher Columbus statue in New York state was taken down Friday morning after local officials decided to have ...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday urged Baltimore city leaders to regain control of their own streets after ...

Columbus State Community College has removed a statue of Christopher Columbus from its campus, saying the statue was ...

Statues of Christopher Columbus were vandalized in at least two states on Monday. The nation was celebrating Columbus ...

The Azores archipelago is about 1,000 miles off the coast of Europe, about a third of the way to North ...

A mysterious inscription on a mysterious artifact has been theorized by some to be Cherokee, Semitic, or Welsh, ...

Medieval scholar Donald Yates, Ph.D., is shedding new light on controversial artifacts found near Tuscon, Ariz., in the ...

Columbus Day presents a unique opportunity for parents to explore history with their kids.

Did Scandinavian traders come to Canada thousands of years before the Vikings are thought to have landed?

Did a single wave of migration people the Americas, or have there been many expeditions from many cultures ...

The ancient Greek myth of Cadmus battling a snake could be an allegory for the discovery of the ...