by Andrew Rowen | Nov 9, 2021 | New York City
At last! Columbus and Caonabó: 1493–1498 Retold goes on sale today! See the reviews of historians and others under Reviews, as well as purchase links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and IndieBound (you select your participating independent...
by Andrew Rowen | Nov 4, 2021 | New York City
After Dominica and Marie-Galante, Columbus’s fleet anchored for a week (November 4–10, 1493) at the twin islands close to Marie-Galante that the Kalinago or Caribe inhabitants called Caloucaera and Couchoalaoua. Columbus named them as one—Santa María de Guadalupe...
by Andrew Rowen | Nov 3, 2021 | New York City
At 5 a.m. on November 3, 1493, 528 years ago today, a lookout on Columbus’s flagship, the María Galante, sighted a volcano topping the sea mist in the moonlight. By dawn, islands of the archipelago now known as the Lesser Antilles came into view, and Columbus directed...
by Andrew Rowen | Oct 11, 2021 | New York City
For this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I post a link to my article published yesterday on the History News Network explaining why I believe it’s important to retell the traditional “Columbus story” from both Taíno and European perspectives. HNN Article
by Andrew Rowen | Oct 5, 2021 | New York City
Columbus’s second fleet stopped over at Gran Canaria on October 2, 1493, where sugar was stocked and a leaking ship repaired, and then anchored in the tiny harbor at San Sebastián on Gomera on October 5, the latter shown in two photos below. Prior to his first voyage,...
