Even in his own day, the famed 13th-century travel writer Marco Polo was mocked as a purveyor of tall tales—gem-encrusted clothes, nude temple dancing girls, screaming tarantulas—in his narrative of ...

In this overstuffed, occasionally compelling, but ultimately lackluster recounting of the famed libertine’s life, Bergreen (Columbus: The Four Voyages) gives much detail but little insight into the ...

Author and historian Laurence Bergreen told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that history's most famous explorer Christopher Columbus is “a very complicated" figure and difficult for people to understand ...

MARCO POLO was only 17 when he departed for China in 1271 with his father, Niccolo, and his uncle, Maffeo. Those two merchants of Venice were known to the boy primarily as storytellers of their ...

Historian Laurence Bergreen joins Host Larry Mantle to tell the tale of the greatest maritime voyage of discovery, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, from 1519-1522. It has been over ...

Author and journalist Laurence Bergreen is the accomplished biographer of a long list of famous people, ranging from Columbus and Marco Polo to Al Capone and Louis Armstrong. His latest book, however, ...

Francis Drake, son of an English clergyman of modest means, was a pirate, an explorer, a navigator, a world traveler to beat all world travelers, a vice admiral of the small but fast British Fleet ...

Editor’s Note: Laurence Bergreen is the author of “Columbus: The Four Voyages” and “Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe,” among other books. The opinions ...

Despite the claims of some recent and gruesome contenders, Alphonse “Scarface” Capone remains the most fascinating and charismatic of American criminals. Daring, bloodthirsty and flamboyant, he was ...

Chicago’s symphony orchestra is world class. Modern architecture was born of the Loop’s skyscrapers. Jane Addams pioneered social work at Hull House on Halsted Street. Yet traveling abroad, Chicagoans ...