Whether you call it Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, one thing is for sure—the holiday, held this year on October 13, churns up a sea of debate that could capsize even the Santa Maria. While ...

Christopher Columbus sailed westward in 1492, hoping to find a new route to China and South Asia, but he hit a major roadblock — the Americas — and landed in the Caribbean. Columbus wasn't the first ...

There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewhat ...

Christopher Columbus’s three ships—the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria—first landed on a beach of a small island within the Bahamas Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 12, 1492. The natives called ...