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Clad in timber and topped with soaring sails, a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus’ 15th-century flagship has moored ...

Scott Simon talks with Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus. Dugard delves into the rarely portrayed final journey of the famous explorer. Columbus's problems began, ironically ...

Samuel Eliot Morison was a professor at Harvard University, an admiral, historian of American naval adventures in World War II and a yachtsman who traced in his own vessel the voyage of Columbus ...

The outcry even reached the Tournament of Roses parade, which, in 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage, invited a Native American congressman to join a descendant of Columbus’ as ...

A replica of the flagship of Christopher Columbus’s fleet during his 1492 voyage opens its gangways to visitors in London.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on one of the most consequential expeditions in history. He and his crew spent more than a month at sea and eventually landed upon the New World. But the ...

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.

The statue was donated in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' voyage and the discovery of the new world. In the wake of George Floyd's death, statues of Columbus, as well as ...