On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family "because from it I came and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking aim at Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over a years-old social media post that he said is disrespectful to New York City’s Italian ...

Humans weren’t the only life forms that made the passage from Europe to America on Columbus’ maiden voyages. Here are a few of the “unticketed” travellers of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. In 1492, ...

Revising history is all the rage these days. But the fact is some of what we were taught in grade school, if not wrong, was definitely exaggerated. For example, on the website of the Yale-New Haven ...

The historic vessel sank due to a "system malfunction" on Friday, Oct. 10 The Marigalante ship sank off the Mexican coast on Friday, Oct. 10, due to a system failure The historic vessel, built in 1987 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's Columbus Day, a federal holiday. Chicago Public Schools recognizes it as Indigenous Peoples' Day. Schools, government offices, libraries and the postal service are closed Monday.

The second Monday in October is a federal holiday known as Columbus Day, but some now observe it as Indigenous Peoples Day instead. Christopher Columbus is a controversial figure, criticized for ...

Five years after it was splattered with red paint, toppled and dragged into a lake, the bronze statue of Christopher Columbus that stood for nearly a century in a city park in Richmond, Virginia, has ...

Let’s return to the genuine Columbus of the Italian immigrants and not to the fictional Columbus of the French revolutionaries and their flat Earth myth. Donald Trump says that he wants to “bring ...

We applaud the Trump White House for its resounding proclamation on the occasion of Columbus Day, a full-throated endorsement of the holiday and a “pledge to reclaim [Columbus's] extraordinary legacy ...

Christopher Columbus sailed westward in 1492, hoping to find a new route to China and South Asia, but he hit a major roadblock — the Americas — and landed in the Caribbean. So, how would history have ...

Columbus Day is Monday. Though it's a federal holiday, observation practices vary widely across the country. The traditional Columbus Day holiday has been celebrated since 1892 — four centuries after ...