Centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus continues to stir fascination ... yet much of his biography is murky. Though tradition claims he hailed from Genoa, some experts have suggested ...

So why does the myth persist to this day? Blame Washington Irving, a 19th-century American writer whose fantastical biography of Columbus was so well-loved that the myth of medieval flat-earthers ...

"Custom of the sea" was a historically accepted practice of cannibalism as a means of survival during shipwrecks and sea ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

Donald Trump says he's bringing Columbus Day back. What's happened to the explorer's statues in his namesake city?

Columbus statues were removed from Columbus City Hall and Columbus State Community College in 2020. The City Hall statue remains in storage while the city decides its fate with help from the ...

Where was Christopher Columbus from? Was he from Genoa? The research suggests that Columbus was of Sephardic Jewish and Aragonese descent. After years of analysing DNA samples, Lorente’s team ...

Keeping a pro-Palestinian puppet on display is different because that is ‘art,’ the mayor says.

“I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes,” Trump wrote in a fiery post on Truth Social. “The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his ...

President Trump on Sunday vowed to bring back celebrations of Columbus Day, making no mention of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day concurrently. "I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.