Let’s return to the genuine Columbus of the Italian immigrants and not to the fictional Columbus of the French revolutionaries and their flat Earth myth. Donald Trump says that he wants to “bring ...

Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all -- they're about whether America itself should exist. REUTERS Battles over Columbus Day aren’t really about Christopher ...

Earlier this year I visited Huelva, Spain, which is very close to the border with Portugal. It is where Christopher Columbus launched the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria on his journey to America. There ...

James Sisto argues that removing Columbus statues and renaming Columbus Day disrespects Italian Americans in Columbus, Ohio. He criticizes local leaders for replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous ...

Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he wants the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate two Christopher Columbus statues. He deserves thanks for agreeing to take a long-overdue step to ...

While this iconoclasm may seem to be a late 20th-century development (one that culminated in the 21st century with the destruction of multiple statues of the Genoese mariner during the George Floyd ...

Somebody eventually had to knit the whole world together. North and South. Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The person who launched that adventure was Christopher Columbus. Critics will point out his ...

In New York City’s volatile 2025 mayoral election, Columbus Day has become a visceral hot-button issue. Though people of Italian ancestry comprise more than 8% of Gotham’s population, frontrunner ...

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,” ...

A new House GOP proposal would withhold funding from U.S. jurisdictions that celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day. It comes after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation last ...