Writer Jen A. Miller says she's proud of her Italian American heritage — but thinks Columbus Day in name has to go.

Portrayals of Columbus as a villain often rely on select moments taken out of context, while dismissing a great deal of other ...

While reclaiming Columbus Day as a federal holiday, the president lashed out at Americans who have acknowledged the Italian ...

When it comes to Christopher Columbus, President Donald Trump just gets it. He knows that October 12 is Columbus Day. He ...

President Donald Trump renewed the focus of Columbus Day to be celebrated on the second Monday of October, reclaiming the ...

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, to a humble family of wool weavers. He rose through skill and perseverance, not privilege. Against all odds, he convinced the Spanish crown to back his ...

Restoring the holiday’s proper name jibes with the president’s push to restore ‘truth and sanity to American history.’ ...

Somebody eventually had to knit the whole world together. North and South. Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The person who ...

Historian Esteban Mira Caballos presents a rigorous biography of the navigator that uses data to refute some of the legends ...

Lionizing Columbus celebrates the setting of the colonizer’s moral compass with European Christian supremacy as due north.

The post drew immediate attention for its use of "Columbus Day" instead of "Indigenous Peoples Day," the name change of the ...

And like his fellow Italian explorers — Giovanni da Verrazzano, Amerigo Vespucci, Enrico Tonti and Giovanni Caboto — Cristoforo Colombo was part of a cultural continuum that spawned the Miracle at ...