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

Vice President Kamala Harris denigrated the European explorers who discovered the Americas during a Tuesday speech at the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention.

In recent decades, respect for European explorers, such as Christopher Columbus, has waned, likely because these once-romanticized swashbuckling adventurers killed people, eradicated cultures, and ...

Flashback: Harris slammed European explorers for ushering in 'devastation for tribal nations' Vice President Kamala Harris declared in 2021 that the U.S. "must not shy away" from its "shameful ...

How European explorers risked life and limb to reach a legendary African city. March 4, 2006. By Jonathan Yardley.

European Exploration of the Coast. The English, Spanish and French governments were all eager to share in the taking of this rich territory. The British dispatched ...

When studying Western history, we tend to say that this European explorer discovered this continent or that island, when those lands were already long inhabited. Cartographer Bill Rankin maps out ...

How European explorers discovered Ilha Formosa The Renaissance kicked off a thirst for exploration and adventure, the result of which would see maritime European powers descending on ‘the Orient’ in ...

If the word explorer makes you think, fondly or angrily, about a group of 15th- and 16th-century European seafarers––Vasco da Gama, Juan Ponce de León, Ferdinand Magellan––you’re ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Tuesday that the European explorers who first landed on U.S. shores had "ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence ...

He shows that explorers—a term he applies loosely—have come from all sorts of places and have gone in every direction. He asks that we refresh our mental picture of what “discovery” means.