Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day will be observed on October 9. — -- For some, the second Monday in October is a celebration of Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who came to ...

Remains of the Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy after it was ripped from its pedestal and dragged into the Jones Falls by protesters in Baltimore on Saturday, July 4, 2020.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s commission on monuments has recommended that three statues of Christopher Columbus should not return to their old spots in Grant Park or Little Italy, the Tribune reported ...

More than half a millennium after Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the physical remains of his three ships — the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria — remain lost to history.. The ...

In the heart of downtown Chicago, on the edge of Grant Park, are the remnants of what used to be a Christopher Columbus statue.The pedestal that once carried the 33-foot statue is wrapped in ...

Myths about Christopher Columbus date back four centuries, all the way to his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. In that year, the first revisionist history of Columbus was written.

But Christopher Columbus also became the face of a celebration of Italian heritage, amid discrimination in the U.S. Accessibility links. ... How Columbus Sailed Into U.S. History, ...

Currier and Ives print of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), landing in the West Indies on October 11, 1492. Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images ...

Today, we celebrate the great legacy of Christopher Columbus. With a deep and abiding faith in God and against seemingly insurmountable odds, Columbus led a voyage of three ships across the ...

Christopher Columbus XX: Hey America, my ancestor didn't cause your failings We're quick to rewrite history and accuse Christopher Columbus of decimating Native Americans when the truth is so much ...