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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America and South America). Born in Genoa, Italy ...

Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to stir fascination and fierce debate. His historic Atlantic crossings in 1492 are famous worldwide, but his legacy remains deeply tangled ...

Although we treat it as a Monday holiday (and thus a “moveable feast”), in the long arc of history Oct. 12, 1492 (which that year fell on a Friday), the anniversary of Columbus landing on an ...

The history of the Christopher Columbus memorial at the Minnesota State Capitol Italian Americans erected the memorial in 1931 to mark Columbus as the first white man to set foot in the Americas ...

What is the science behind the Christopher Columbus origins discovery? A Spanish documentary has used DNA to make history-changing claims, but the science behind its conclusions remains unclear.

A century-old statue of Christopher Columbus that was defaced and tossed into a lake during protests in Virginia four years ago is now standing tall in New York City’s suburbs. The 1-ton ...

The origins of Columbus, Ohio, a new state capital. In the early 1800s, after years of Ohio's state capital residing in Chillicothe, then Zanesville, then back to Chillicothe, the Ohio General ...