Christopher Columbus

Instead of making students memorize facts, we should teach them to ask questions.

• By David M. Perry

How the blurred lines between history and politics turned an architect of destruction into a national icon.

• By William Francis Keegan

How to be an old-fashioned explorer—intrepid, obsessive, khaki-clad—without conquering anything. The secret life of Keith Muscutt.

• By Robert Anasi