“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became ...

A man of convictions, Christopher Columbus used his strong personality to persuade rulers and scholars to overlook the accepted theories about the size of the Earth to search out a new route to Asia.

He also came up with the concept for a 1986 TV cartoon series, Galaxy High School, about an extraterrestrial school populated by weird-looking space aliens. Columbus was given a chance to direct the ...

Joel Barlow's epic The Columbiad first depicted Columbus' discovery as the starting point of American history. Washington Irving and William Hickling Prescott presented the discoverer as a dramatic ...

Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he ...