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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -300 years after Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Columbus Day was first celebrated by Italian Americans ...

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Columbus have a long history. The early Ohio newspaper Freeman’s Chronicle reported that in ...

SEE ALSO: AI's exclusion of Indigenous voices is history repeating itself Central to the Columbus Day conflict is the fact that, for many, the longstanding celebration did little to recognize the ...

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 ...

Columbus boasts a rich Irish ... But what is the true meaning of St. Patrick's Day, and what is its origin? Here's everything you need to know about the history of the holiday.

Council member Greer Stone, who teaches history, noted that the city is about to start commemorating remembrance days for the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide. Keeping Columbus Day wouldn’t ...

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 ...

This year, Columbus Day falls on Monday ... of Native Americans before European colonialization and recognizes their history and culture. Today, a growing number of U.S. cities and states ...

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Columbus have a long history. The early Ohio newspaper Freeman’s Chronicle reported that in March 1813, during the second year of the War of 1812, a ...