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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Controversy over Christopher Columbus is not new, but the clash between Chicago police and protesters in Grant Park in 2020, led to the removal […] Skip to content. All Sections.