Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all — they're about whether America should exist. "Columbus's journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, ...

US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Thursday of the upcoming Columbus Day holiday, pointedly foregoing a similar honor for Indigenous American history introduced under his Democratic ...

October 12, 1911 - 1911 was the first year Columbus Day was celebrated as a legal holiday in Nebraska. The Nebraska Legislature rejected the holiday two years before and faced resistance despite ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day are being observed Monday, Oct. 13, meaning some places will be closed or have modified hours. The two holidays -- although seen as ...

President Donald Trump renewed the focus of Columbus Day to be celebrated on the second Monday of October, reclaiming the explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue,” ...

The National Museum of the American Indian points out that Columbus was not the first explorer to land in the Americas and says indigenous peoples had occupied the continent for thousands of years ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The streets of Cleveland’s Little Italy came alive Monday afternoon as the annual Columbus Day Parade made its way down Mayfield Road. Organized by The Italian Sons and Daughters of ...

Every October we return to the argument over Columbus Day: what it means, who it honors and whether it belongs on the calendar of modern-day America. We rehearse the same old script: discovery versus ...