Currier and Ives print of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), landing in the West Indies on October 11, 1492. Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images.

21 Facts You Never Learned About Christopher Columbus. Claire Nowak. September 29, 2020 at 10:00 AM. Copied; 1. We don’t know where Columbus was born.

Myths about Christopher Columbus date back four centuries, all the way to his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. In that year, the first revisionist history of Columbus was written.

In the heart of downtown Chicago, on the edge of Grant Park, are the remnants of what used to be a Christopher Columbus statue. The pedestal that once carried the 33-foot statue is wrapped in ...

There are more than 6,000 references to Columbus across the country. Churches, schools, municipal buildings, roads, rivers and mountains all bear his name, as do more than 130 monuments.

EXCITED residents flocked to Southend Pier yesterday as a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus' famous flagship ...

Columbus Day is a national holiday, celebrated with parades and songs. While most Americans know that Columbus sailed the ocean blue, many of the facts surrounding the voyage remain misunderstood.

The story of Christopher Columbus inspires American pride for his unquenchable curiosity, his desire to see new lands and meet new people, and his relentless drive for industry.

Christopher Columbus was an important navigator whose background has long been scrutinized. The explorer, by his admission, claimed in a deed that he was born in the Italian port city of Genoa ...

SEVILLE, Spain — Conventional history states Christopher Columbus was from Genoa, Italy, but he may have been, in fact, a Sephardic Jew from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, according to a new ...

Christopher Columbus wrote a letter in 1493 about his impressions of islands he “discovered” in the Americas. One of the original copies is being auctioned off.

Currier and Ives print of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), landing in the West Indies on October 11, 1492. Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images.