Once praised by French traditionalist Catholics, the 'discoverer of America' is now celebrated by American and Italian ...

Illustrated title (2 maps) on two leaves. Reproductions of two woodcuts and the first and last pages of the second Columbus letter, 1493, on lining-papers. siris_sil_264231 ...

“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became ...

Who named America? Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci inspired the name via a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller. Learn who was ...

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Jeffrey Quiñones-Díaz argues that strategic, rules-based engagement — not denial — should guide policy as China remains ...

Discover the incredible power and lasting legacies of Spain's most famous Queens, including Isabella I and Juana I. Learn ...

Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of ...

WHEN YOU think of the Canary Islands, you probably imagine Tenerife or Lanzarote – but one smaller island that’s a hidden gem ...

Christopher Columbus changed the world, as few other men have ever changed it, bringing together the unknown and the known. Yet remarkably, the great explorer went to his grave ignorant of his great ...

"Slightly altered and corrected republication in one volume of nos. LXV and LXX of the second series of works published by The Hakluyt Society, London, in 1930 and 1933, respectively, under the title ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place a picture of Christopher Columbus on a timeline. The students learn about the ...