It was a daring - and dangerous - expedition that changed world history forever. What we now refer to as the Age of Exploration had started earlier in the 15th Century with the Portuguese reaching the ...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but when he returned from 'cross the seas, did he bring with him a new disease? New skeletal evidence suggests Columbus and his crew not only introduced the ...

The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder is pleased to welcome Professor Matt Goldish as the 2017 annual Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar. Goldish will be in ...

Columbus Day commemorates the voyage and landing of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492. Columbus Day is a federal holiday, but Indigenous Peoples' Day is not, ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Christopher Columbus has long been hailed as the ...

If anyone had asked me as a child to define Christopher Columbus, I would have simply said that he discovered America. That’s what I was taught in grade school. As children, we honored him by ...

Columbus Day, for many, is nothing more than a three-day weekend in October but for Italian Americans, it's been over 500 years in the making. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and on October ...

On Dec. 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indian island of Santo Domingo. In 1776, Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity in America, was organized at the College of William ...

1492 Pictures picks up film rights to Charles Yu's "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" with Brendan Bellomo set to direct. By Daniel Miller Chris Columbus‘ 1492 Pictures has acquired ...

Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, but he never set foot in mainland North America (what would become the United States). While Columbus' voyages did take him to a few Caribbean ...