While many in the U.S. grew up hearing the phrase “Columbus discovered America,” this narrative has become increasingly controversial. Columbus never set foot on the mainland of what is now ...

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas ... in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America. While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European ...

History books tell us that Christopher Columbus discovered America. But a new study suggests that Viking Age Norse people ...

South and Central America who met in Quito, Ecuador, in July 1990 to organize a cross-continental indigenous resistance to the Columbus Quincentennial.

Columbus became famous as the man who discovered new lands called the Americas ... One thing we can say for certain is that finding the continent of America was a huge event for Europeans ...