President Roosevelt unashamedly credited Columbus and his men as “harbingers” of the great movement of people from the Old World to the New. In the midst of a world war, Roosevelt asked the ...

A recent study has provided significant evidence about the origin of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease.

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas, but it was his arrival—and subsquent three ... the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation of its indigenous peoples, often violently ...

Columbus, Ohio will gain about 45 minutes of daylight in January, with earlier sunrises and later sunsets, while Alaska will see the biggest increase in daylight hours this month.

It has long been known that Europeans reached the Americas before Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. But this is the first time researchers have suggested an exact date. Writing in the ...

On the second voyage in 1493, Columbus intentionally sailed back to the New World and landed in Puerto ... The Europeans' ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — OhioHealth welcomed its first baby birth in the new year. An OhioHealth spokesperson said Cade James ...

After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492 ... was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World.

A city free from large crowds of tourists and having a rich history is not only what makes Columbus a Midwestern ... major cities like New York and Washington, D.C., the world now seems to be ...

"Does the kingdom of Spain have to apologise because five centuries ago it discovered the New World ... to mark the US Columbus Day holiday, said the explorer's arrival had led to "a wave of ...