The U. S. Postal Service issued a 29-cent commemorative Friday recalling the 500th anniversary of Chris- topher Columbus’ landing in Puerto Rico. First day ceremonies were held in San Juan an… ...

Columbus left crew members on the island of Hispaniola after his second voyage to America in 1493-94.

Never mind the disease and slavery wrought by Christopher Columbus’ voyage – or the fact that he didn’t actually “discover” the New World.

Columbus returned to Spain on March 15, 1493, to great acclaim. He undertook a second trip on Nov. 3 during which he sighted Dominica in the West Indies.

On the second voyage, begun in 1493, Columbus ordered natives to be rounded up and returned to Spain to be sold. In February 1494, several dozen Indian slaves arrived in Spain.

On his second voyage, Columbus established a settlement, named La Isabella, on an island he called Hispaniola, in present-day Haiti. He enslaved thousands of Arawaks there, working many to death ...

The ship was part of the 1939 Harvard Columbus Expedition, a five-month voyage across the Atlantic. On board were a hodgepodge of academics, sailors, Harvard affiliates, and their wives.

After retracing part of Columbus’ first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go ...

Columbus’ voyages sparked an odyssey. “Rough-cut seamen, adventurous merchants, penurious hidalgos, ... Little-known today, Humboldt in his time was second in fame only to Napoleon.

Columbus on his second return voyage took six Indians back to Spain, but not as slaves. "He took them because they wanted to go," Delaney said. A version of this story was first published in 2017.

Vinci is a retired environmental epidemiologist. He lives in Roanoke. Columbus Day is a unique holiday. We know Christopher Columbus sailed “the ocean blue, in 1492” and in so doing crossed ...