Where Is Cotton Malone When You Need Him?
Memo to Steve Berry: bring back Cotton Malone and tone down the history lessons. We need more adventure and less information.
Memo to Steve Berry: bring back Cotton Malone and tone down the history lessons. We need more adventure and less information.
Posted 05.22.2012
Over five centuries after the famed explorer's death, historians are taking a fresh look at what motivated Christopher Columbus to make his voyage acr...
Charles Garcia | Posted 05.23.2012
Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite.
The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.08.2012
When Columbus returned to Europe from his voyage to America, he and his crew brought news that would reshape the world. And according to recent resear...
Bob Schulman | Posted 12.10.2011
Christopher Columbus was cruising around the eastern Caribbean in 1493 when he spotted a bunch of islands so pristine he named the lovely dots in the blue-green waters "Las Virgenes."
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.10.2011
Christopher Columbus's life is proof that the process of discovery doesn't begin or end with landfall. Columbus didn't go looking for a new world and,...
Posted 12.05.2011
By Josef Kuhn Religion News Service (RNS) Two recent books argue that explorers Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama were more like Christian cr...
Alison Owings | Posted 12.03.2011
If there is a single individual in history more disliked by Native Americans than George Armstrong Custer and Andrew Jackson, it is Christopher Columbus.
Lee Palmer Wandel | Posted 11.14.2011
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In 1517, Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses. So began two stories that have shaped the West since the 16th century. But what happens if we link the two?
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
Columbus did not land in Bolivia. But a Spanish film crew has chosen that country to shoot their historic recreation of that event because, well, it's cheaper.
Gourmet Live | Posted 05.25.2011
Every February 14th love-struck men and women spend more than 1 billion dollars on chocolate products. Blame Cupid for the love-struck part, but why c...
Posted 05.25.2011
Today is Columbus Day 2010 -- a day when Americans celebrate the man who allegedly discovered America. Nearly 500 years after Columbus sailed the ocea...
Eric Kasum | Posted 05.25.2011
Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?
James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011
This dude had a whole damn fleet of sweet rides. Man, they were like the Lincoln Navigators of the sea!
Matt J. Rossano | Posted 05.25.2011
There never was a flat earth dogma. When Columbus faced off with the Spanish cardinals, the issue was the size of the earth, not its shape. And the Cardinals were right: the earth was a lot bigger than Columbus believed.
Zachary Stockill | Posted 05.25.2011
The more of the world one experiences the more it is made abundantly clear that no matter where one travels, the human experience is one of remarkable uniformity.
Honey Seltzer | Posted 05.25.2011
Eight years ago, when my eldest granddaughter was 7 years old, she, like millions of other kids, became obsessed with Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts.
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011
I recently watched Casino Jack and the United State of Money, a new documentary about Jack Abramoff by filmmaker Alex Gibney, in a virtually empty mov...
Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011
But my students could not get their minds around the idea that Columbus could be a slaver, an imperialist, a violent missionary, a bad man -- and also be a great explorer.
Michael Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011
It is as well that Christopher Columbus was so sure of himself, because he was in many respects staggeringly incompetent. The very basis of his journey to the New World was a miscalculation.
Wall Street Journal | CONOR DOUGHERTY and SUDEEP REDDY | Posted 05.25.2011
The tradition of honoring Christopher Columbus for sailing the ocean blue in 1492 is facing rougher seas than the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria....
Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 05.25.2011
Given that we reside in one of the most literate societies in history, it is our task to expose all myths for what they are, whether they relate to Christopher Columbus or to the origins of a sitting U.S. President.
Posted 05.25.2011
More than 35,000 marchers turned out for New York's 65th Annual Columbus Day Parade today. The parade is the world's largest and featured such lumi...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
The litany of sectarian killings that has been such a grotesque piece of America's "hidden history" is the reason that some of the Framers thought the First Amendment was so necessary.
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.22.2012