Across the United States, many celebrate Columbus Day, a controversial federal holiday observed every year on the second ...

Discover 9 essential facts about Columbus Day 2025. Learn about its history, Italian-American heritage, controversies, and why some U.S. states now observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

This year the federal holiday, also known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, falls on October 13. Here’s what’s open—from Walmart ...

Somebody eventually had to knit the whole world together. North and South. Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The person who ...

As Columbus Day approaches, having now been proclaimed by President Donald Trump in an Executive Order for the Monday ...

A new poll has found that most Americans are skeptical of what they were taught in schools about Christopher Columbus. The survey, conducted by YouGov and released on October 12, two days before the ...

Columbus Day increasingly shares the calendar date with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which cities including Columbus and Akron now celebrate. President Joe Biden became the first president to acknowledge ...

A commemorative monument memorializing Italian Explorer Christopher Columbus and his late 15th-century voyage to the Americas was vandalized with red spray paint that said: “Genocider” and “Death to ...

A box covering a statue of Christopher Columbus in Philadelphia has been removed after a commonwealth judge ruled against Mayor Jim Kenney—who previously called for the statue to be taken down. In a ...