Columbus Day, which commemorates Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World on October 12, 1492, and is observed on the second Monday of October, is one of 10 federal holidays. The first ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail on one of the most consequential expeditions in history. He and his crew spent more than a month at sea and eventually landed upon the New World. But the ...

The person who launched that adventure was Christopher Columbus ... the Pinta and the Santa Maria began a new era of vast exploration of the world, first by Europeans, then by everybody.

The findings disrupted the “New World Order” of arrival. Not only did Christopher Columbus not “discover” America, he was far from the first European to set foot in The New World.

"The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus ... of the many decades before!" Columbus is commonly credited with discovering the "New World." This after journeying ...

To say that Christopher Columbus is somewhat controversial ... Well, numerous claims of numerous people “discovering” the new world before Columbus have been made. Some of these claims are ...

But they also welcomed Christopher Columbus, who came with an important ... considering Columbus’ bloody history in the new world. “I just wanted to say, let’s take the statues down.

So, our town is about to take up the problem of what should replace the giant Christopher ... Hall — and figure out a new and no doubt less prominent home for the Columbus statue.

“is it OK to admire Christopher Columbus again?” Ever since the quincentennial of Columbus’s first voyage to the New World in 1492, denunciations of the Italian navigator as a brutal ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or even originally Catholic but instead a Sephardic Jew likely from Spain who hid his heritage to avoid persecution, a new genetic study suggests. A decades ...

Being one of the most famous and influential figures in human history, it should come as no surprise that many cultures and nationalities have claimed Christopher Columbus—whose origins have ...