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

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

Les Stone/Polaris Christopher Columbus, anchored somewhere along the island's Atlantic coast, upped sails to begin the long voyage back to ... Moore first visited Haiti in 1964 as a volunteer ...

April 17th marks a day filled with events that have significantly shaped the course of history across various continents and ...

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

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.

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Simon Park, who teaches Portuguese history and literature at Oxford University, aims to recast the early period of European exploration as a story of disasters rather than successes. His target is ...

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