A huge replica of a historic ship has docked in Essex for a week - and fans will now be able to pay it a visit. The ...

Scheidies: "History is simply your story, my story. It is the story of the famous, the infamous and the neighbor next door." ...

Vangelis's celebrated soundtrack to Ridley Scott's epic recounting of the voyage to America in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, ...

President Donald Trump vowed Sunday to "bring Columbus Day back from the ashes." What Happened: Trump pledged on Truth Social to restore the federal holiday "under the same rules, dates, and ...

When is Columbus Day 2025? Columbus Day falls on the second Monday in October each year. Some prefer to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. This year, it will be on Oct. 13.

Why It Matters Columbus Day is a federal holiday celebrated in the United States on the second Monday of October, marking Christopher Columbus ' arrival in the Americas in 1492.

The explorer, Christopher Columbus, is famous for reaching the Americas and opening up a new world to European pioneers. But though his determination and skills were second to none, he eventually ...

SEVILLE, Spain — Conventional history states Christopher Columbus was from Genoa, Italy, but he may have been, in fact, a Sephardic Jew from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, according to a new ...

There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewha ...

“In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage 532 years ago, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 … as amended, has requested the President ...

On the second voyage in 1493, Columbus intentionally sailed back to the New World and landed in Puerto Rico where he enslaved many of the Taino people native to the island - some of which were ...

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.