Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage to the "India," in 1492. Spain sponsored his voyage, for they were in explorative competition with Portugal.

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493—not the year Christopher Columbus “sailed the ocean blue,” but the year in ...

During his second journey to the Caribbean, historian Edward T. Stone wrote in a 1975 essay for American Heritage, Columbus captured a large number of indigenous men, women, and children, sending ...

Claire Wang, a junior at Trinity Christian School (TCS) of Fairfax, won the state level Christopher Columbus Essay Contest sponsored by the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution. Claire ...

COLUMBUS AND SHAKESPEARE.; A Rather Smart Essay on the Doings of Americans at Stratford. Share full article. May 18, 1896.

To discover that Christopher Columbus, long whispered to have Jewish heritage, had markers of Sephardic DNA is to me about as monumental as learning the Earth is round circa 1492.