Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) generally gets credit for finding America. In grade school, many of us learned this ditty: ...

Old World is a common reference for Europe, Asia, and Africa—essentially anything east of the Atlantic Ocean when looking from the Americas. The term originates from Amerigo Vespucci, a French ...

An ambush to reconstruct. This is the most accredited hypothesis among the investigative leads being examined by the police ...

Who named America? Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci inspired the name via a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller. Learn who was ...

Trump has backtracked centuries to Theodore Roosevelt’s doctrine of 1904 and James Monroe’s of 1823. Roosevelt’s doctrine ...

Italy's burgeoning global profile owes much to the premier's galvanizing role, even if she does not fall in lockstep with ...