Columbus Day is a federal holiday commemorating Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ voyage and landing in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. Columbus was commissioned by King Ferdinand and Queen ...

Columbus Day is a federal holiday commemorating Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ voyage and landing in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. Columbus was commissioned by King Ferdinand and Queen ...

Ever since the quincentennial of Columbus’s first voyage to the New World in 1492, denunciations of the Italian navigator as a brutal conqueror and bloody enslaver had been growing louder and ...

It was a focal point of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a mammoth fair that celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage to the New World.

In 1891 — one year prior to the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage — 11 Italians in New Orleans were slaughtered in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history.

In April 1492, King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to sponsor Columbus’s proposed voyage. On Aug. 3, 1492, three modest ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, set sail.

Timothy Herrick would have us believe that “Christopher Columbus Drive is the Jersey City equivalent of Confederate statues – and as horrifying.” Mr. Herrick weaves an incoherent tapestry of ...

Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.” -Christopher Columbus, Translation by Cecil Jane, The Voyages of Christopher Columbus, p146-147.

Never mind the disease and slavery wrought by Christopher Columbus' voyage -- or the fact that he didn't actually "discover" the New World. President Donald Trump's first presidential proclamation ...

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 ...

Replicas of the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta floating in the ocean off coast during tour to celebrate 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the New World, May 6, 1992.