U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said European explorers "ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease." Harris made the remarks in ...

More than 530 years after Christopher Columbus led an expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, many Americans still see the navigator as a symbol of their country’s origins. Others see ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France. As he sailed ...

Christopher Columbus and other early European explorers were best known for the “new” lands they discovered and the people they transported. But there’s another side to the story, and it has to do ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...