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.

COLUMBUS: THE FOUR VOYAGES By Laurence Bergreen Viking, $35, 423 pages To recall Samuel Eliot Morison’s generation-old writings about Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration is to summon ...

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 ...

Christopher Columbus carried ideas that boded ill for Indies natives. The Gallery Collection / Corbis In the year 1513, a group of men led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa marched across the Isthmus of ...

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. Vikings ...

Oval Office aspirants of 2024, unite. On Columbus Day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump should honor America and uphold the ideals of Western civilization by celebrating the epochal voyage of the Adm… ...

New DNA research has revealed that Christopher Columbus, who accidentally discovered the Americas, was a Sephardic Jew. ... Columbus went on to make several other voyages to the New World.

To say that Christopher Columbus is somewhat controversial is kind of like saying the planet Jupiter is somewhat large. To some, he is the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", the heroic navigator who ...

RACINE — You can’t blame locals for having Christopher Columbus on the brain these days. With replicas of his ships the Niña and the Pinta docked in the Rooney Pugh Recreational Area since ...