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.

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 ...

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.

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

Columbus's account of his third voyage, as published by Navarrete, is less luminous than the relation given by Las Casas, based on the full journal of the Admiral and accompanied by notes and ...

In 1486, Columbus went to the Spanish monarchy of Queen Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their focus was on a war with the Muslims, and their nautical experts were skeptical, so they, ...

Columbus didn't have much to show for his adventures when he returned to Spain, but he quickly secured funding for a second voyage. Returning to the fort on Hispaniola was his first priority, but ...

Vangelis's celebrated soundtrack to Ridley Scott's epic recounting of the voyage to America in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, 1992's 1492: Conquest Of Paradise, is to be reissued on vinyl and CD ...

During his second journey to the Caribbean, historian Edward T. Stone wrote in a 1975 essay for American Heritage, Columbus captured a large number of indigenous men, women, and children, sending ...