Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to stir fascination and fierce debate. His historic Atlantic crossings in 1492 are famous worldwide, but his legacy remains deeply tangled in ...

Christopher Columbus was an important navigator whose background has long been scrutinized. The explorer, by his admission, claimed in a deed that he was born in the Italian port city of Genoa, ...

While this iconoclasm may seem to be a late 20th-century development (one that culminated in the 21st century with the destruction of multiple statues of the Genoese mariner during the George Floyd ...