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 ...

Across the United States, many celebrate Columbus Day, a controversial federal holiday observed every year on the second Monday in October. It was named after Christopher Columbus, the man credited ...

Who discovered America? The person who discovered America is not simply Christopher Columbus. The continent was first settled by the ancestors of Indigenous peoples tens of thousands of years ago.

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 ...

Christopher Columbus's four voyages between 1492 and 1504 opened Europe's gateway to the Americas. These expeditions initiated the Columbian Exchange, a vast transfer of goods and peoples. Columbus's ...

Christopher Columbus’s three ships—the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria—first landed on a beach of a small island within the Bahamas Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 12, 1492. The natives called ...

Here is a look at Columbus Day. October 9, 2017 - Columbus Day. Facts: Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Before it became a legal federal holiday in 1971, many states ...

DNA testing has confirmed that the remains in a Spanish cathedral belong to the explorer, but his exact origins are still unknown. Reading time 3 minutes A team of researchers that has spent years ...