Columbus Day has become one of the more controversial holidays in the US. A number of cities across America have already swapped it for Indigenous Peoples' Day. Detractors argue Genoese explorer ...

Monday marks Columbus Day, in honor of Christopher Columbus ... de Blasio recently spoke out and defended both following a controversy between the city's Board of Education and Italian-American ...

Over the decades as Americans have reexamined the founding of the nation, the second Monday in October has come to be a source of great controversy. Though many still celebrate Columbus Day — a ...

Columbus is celebrated with a federal holiday in the US on the second Monday of October every year, although not without ...

Is Columbus Day still a federal holiday? Despite the inconsistency and the controversy, the federal holiday is still recognized. Columbus Day is one of 11 federal holidays, according to the U.S ...

Even today, the national holiday celebrating Leif Erikson’s landing in Newfoundland hasn’t stirred anything like the controversy surrounding Columbus Day. A new research paper from Italy ...

the national holiday celebrating Leif Erikson’s landing in Newfoundland hasn’t stirred anything like the controversy surrounding Columbus Day. ‘They then left to sail to the east of the ...

People who are expecting mail might have to wait another day or two after Columbus Day 2024 for it to arrive. Because the U.S. Postal Service is a government-run organization, it usually observes ...

The fleet also came across other Caribbean islands on this expedition, including modern-day Cuba and Haiti, which Columbus believed were the Indies. While it has been commonly said that Columbus ...