The golden city of Timbuktu, like the lost city of Atlantis, occupies a large place in the world's mythology, but resemblances pretty much end there. Atlantis was Plato's metaphor for the ideal ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France. As he sailed ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said European explorers "ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease." Harris made the remarks in ...

Harris made the remarks in 2021, not recently, as viral posts in 2024 implied. In October 2024, less than a month before the 2024 presidential election, a video of the Democratic nominee, Vice ...

During a 2021 Columbus Day address to the National Congress of American Indians, Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the "shameful" history of the European explorers who came to America: It is an ...

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 past" ...