Buried in the Harvard University Archives, there is a photograph of a ship gliding over water, its sails billowing in the wind, pointing to the unknown. It looks like a boat from the late 1400s, ready ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Columbus's problems began, ironically, ...

Christopher Columbus changed the world, as few other men have ever changed it, bringing together the unknown and the known. Yet remarkably, the great explorer went to his grave ignorant of his great ...

Columbus' 4th voyage has been a total failure: he has not found the westward passage, he has no gold to show, he has lost men and ships and his efforts to build a colony have fallen through. The ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Timothy Herrick would have us believe that “Christopher Columbus Drive is the Jersey City equivalent of Confederate statues – and as horrifying.” Mr. Herrick weaves an incoherent tapestry of ...

Scott Simon talks with Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus. Dugard delves into the rarely portrayed final journey of the famous explorer. Columbus's problems began, ironically, with ...

Columbus brought low just eight years after his dauntless journey to discover a new world, Columbus disgraced and under suspicion. The center of the book is the story of Christopher Columbus' fourth ...