Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated ...

In 1492, when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of a fast route to East Asia and the southwest Pacific, he landed in a place that was unknown to him. There he found treasures – ...

Humans weren’t the only life forms that made the passage from Europe to America on Columbus’ maiden voyages. Here are a few ...

Much of the delegitimization of Christopher Columbus is attached to a similar move to delegitimize America’s Founding Fathers ...

Christopher Columbus was Spanish. He was also English, French, Portuguese, Croatian, Greek, and even Swiss. Over the centuries, researchers and writers have traced his birth to more than a dozen lands ...

Are you off on Monday? If so, it’s likely for Columbus Day — or, perhaps, Indigenous Peoples Day. Monday, Oct. 13, marks both holidays, which fall on the second Monday in October each year. While ...

In a fiery holiday proclamation, the president refused to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples' Day, instead reclaiming Columbus Day as a federal holiday and glorifying the Italian explorer as "the original ...

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 ...