Lancaster Eagle-Gazette about the last passenger train out of Lancaster. The train was the Chesapeake and Ohio's No. 37 ...

show us that the modern celebration has less to do with Christopher Columbus and his voyages to the Caribbean and more to do with the mistreatment of Catholic Americans, which included Italian ...

Proponents of the Catholic Church, the monarchy also hoped the voyage would help spread Christianity into the East. In August 1492, Columbus’s expedition set sail with three ships: the Niña ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...

147 foot ketch named after Columbus's ship on his third voyage of discovery. Horta in the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal were the first ports of call. In Lisbon the party met the second ship of the ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.