Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated the Columbian Exchange, a vast transfer of plants, animals, and diseases ...

Everybody knows Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. But years later, in 1500, he would make an even more precarious voyage. Stripped of his title, accused of heresy and theft, Columbus was ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on one of the most consequential expeditions in history. He and his crew spent more than a month at sea and eventually landed upon the New World. But the journey ...

Monday is the 79th anniversary of the federal government’s making Columbus Day a holiday. To be sure, Americans celebrated Oct. 12 long before 1937. But the holiday has fallen on hard times in recent ...

Illustrated title (2 maps) on two leaves. Reproductions of two woodcuts and the first and last pages of the second Columbus letter, 1493, on lining-papers. https ...

"Slightly altered and corrected republication in one volume of nos. LXV and LXX of the second series of works published by The Hakluyt Society, London, in 1930 and 1933, respectively, under the title ...