William Hogarth, "Columbus Breaking the Egg" (1752). This engraving plays up the image of Columbus as a radical, self-willed explorer. (via wikipedia.org) (click to enlarge) October 12, observed ...

Today, we celebrate the great legacy of Christopher Columbus. With a deep and abiding faith in God and against seemingly insurmountable odds, Columbus led a voyage of three ships across the Atlantic ...

Somebody eventually had to knit the whole world together. North and South. Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The person who launched that adventure was Christopher Columbus. Critics will point out his ...

A new poll has found that most Americans are skeptical of what they were taught in schools about Christopher Columbus. The survey, conducted by YouGov and released on October 12, two days before the ...

Tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus is an act of passion. To topple an 8-foot Columbus statue and toss it into a lake, protesters in Richmond, Virginia, dragged it 200 yards, down a highway, ...

FROM a reader’s point of view, this is to be regarded as a mystery story rather than as a biography, for Columbus is second only to Shakespeare as the most unapproachable and mysterious figure in the ...

A modest crowd braved the cold weather to tour a replica of the Pinta, a Portuguese caravel used by Christopher Columbus in his exploration of the Americas, on its first day in Chattanooga. If you ...

A monument to African American pioneer Harriet Tubman was unveiled in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, taking over a space where a statue of Christopher Columbus stood until the summer of 2020. During ...