Major events for the week of Sunday, Aug. 3, through Saturday, Aug. 9, include Columbus’ voyage, Jesse Owens’s Olympic ...

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.

Columbus’ voyages gave hope for the less fortunate, for the downtrodden, and for the huddled masses. For those reasons, we should continue to commemorate Christopher Columbus on the second ...

During the second voyage, Columbus returns to the Caribbean island with 17 ships and over 1,000 men. Upon arrival, he learns the natives have killed the settlers left behind.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...