The blue glass beads from Venice journeyed around 10,000 miles to the Americas more than five centuries ago and were the size ...

Les Stone/Polaris Christopher Columbus, anchored somewhere along the island's Atlantic coast, upped sails to begin the long voyage back to Spain with news he had discovered a western route to the ...

Abbe Dubois established a St Mary’s Chapel, the first Catholic church in Bangalore Cantonment, in an area called Blackpully ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

It was the culmination of a long-awaited dream and a cause for great celebration when Port Canaveral officially was dedicated ...

Learn about Iceland, Monaco, and other countries with no militaries. These are the agreements and strategies they have for national defence.

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

Christopher Columbus may have been the first European to land on Puerto Rico's shores, but touring San Juan will tell you ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

The Franklin County Coroner’s Office determined that one of the two men who died in late March after being thrown from his motorcycle and struck by several vehicles had alcohol in his system.