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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...