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 ...
Monday, Oct. 13, will be a holiday, though who you celebrate will depend on your worldview. Michigan will recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said, while President Donald Trump ...
Christopher Columbus’s three ships—the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria—first landed on a beach of a small island within the Bahamas Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 12, 1492. The natives called ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It has been decades in the making, the delegitimization of Christopher Columbus, much of it attached to a similar move to delegitimize America’s Founding Fathers—and the founding of America itself.