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.

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 ...

However, many of the facts you may have learned about Columbus in school—for instance, that he proved the Earth is round and that he explored North America—are myths.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...