Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World should be celebrated, not replaced. On Tuesday, Assemblywoman Shea Backus, D-Las Vegas, presented on Assembly Bill 144. It would establish the second ...

Columbus may not have discovered the Americas ... in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America. While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European ...

President Benjamin Harrison, in 1892, proclaimed “the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, as a general holiday for the people of the United States.” “On that day ...

History books tell us that Christopher Columbus discovered America. But a new study suggests that Viking Age Norse people ...

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 ...

For more than a century, the Kensington Runestone has perplexed historians as to its authenticity – in 1898, Olof Ohman and his sons discovered the stone while clearing land for a field. On ...

Columbus became famous as the man who discovered new lands called the Americas ... One thing we can say for certain is that finding the continent of America was a huge event for Europeans ...