CHRISTOPHER Columbus may have stumbled upon the Americas, but his accidental discovery has changed the course of history. The Italian explorer’s travels bridged the gap between Europe and the… ...

No, Christopher Columbus did not discover what is now the United States of America, but he did arrive in the Bahamas, which is part of North America.

Did Columbus 'discover' America ... "the norm" that Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves in the late 1700s and language around Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of ...

In 1492 he may have sailed the ocean blue. But Christopher Columbus has duped people for centuries into believing he discovered America, a new book claims, reports the Telegraph. Instead the credit… ...

Columbus did not “discover” America. As a Native American once told me, “It would be like me getting on a boat in 1492 and sailing from America to England.

It received federal holiday status in 1934 to celebrate the day that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Historians set that date on October 12, 1492. […] Skip to content.

So you think that Christopher Columbus discovered America in the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria and also, while he was at it, proved the Earth wasn’t flat? Wrong, wrong and wrong. Given ...

“Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus,” he said, according to the Daily Mail. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century.