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The Italian navigator Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was the discoverer of America. Though he had set out to find a westward route to Asia, his explorations proved to be as important as any alternate way to the riches of Cathay and India. The...

1451-1506 Italian Explorer If there is any explorer who, in the eyes of most Americans, seems to need no introduction, it is Christopher Columbus. Yet few figures in history have been the subject of so much myth. Old-fashioned political correctness...

Christopher Columbus Born 1451, Genoa, Italy Died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain The life of Christopher Columbus is one of contrasts—great triumphs marked by even greater defeats. Despite Columbus’s downfall in his own time and the divided...

"Christopher Columbus Reports to Ferdinand and Isabella" Reprinted in Major Problems of American Colonial History Published in 1993 "...I promise, that with a little assistance afforded me by our most invincible sovereigns, I will...

1451 Genoa, Italy May 20, 1506 Valladolid, Spain Italian explorer Portrait: Christopher Columbus. "Thirty-three days after my...

Portrait by Alejo Fernández, painted between 1505 and 1536. Photo by historian Manuel Rosa.Bornc. 1451disputed, Genoa, ItalyDiedMay 20 1506outside Valladolid, SpainOccupationMaritime explorer for the Crown of CastileReligious stanceChristianity...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday officially handed over to the United States the 500-year-old map that was the first to tell the world of a new land it called America.Library of Congress historians say the world map, completed by German-born cleric and cartographer Martin...

A land-clearing project in southern Antigua is threatening a unique ancient settlement where Arawak Indians lived from roughly 500 B.C. until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, an archaeologist said Monday.Crews that began removing trees on privately owned property over the weekend risk damaging pottery and...

8:30 a.m. The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce will release results of a congestion pricing survey at the Brooklyn business community forum at 6 MetroTech Center at Polytechnic University’s Dibner Library in Brooklyn. 8:30 a.m. The city’s Department of Juvenile Justice will hold a forum on...

A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.The map was discovered missing from Spain's National Library in August, cut out of a 1482 edition of Claudius Ptolemy's...

Christopher Columbus - good or bad?

Provides an analysis of Howard Zinn's comments on the views of Columbus as a hero, which he believes is undeserved.

Columbus "discovered" America, meaning he found land previously unknown to Europeans. However, he cannot be considered a hero because of the barbaric and devastating way in which he treated the native people.