A number of cities across America have already swapped it for Indigenous Peoples' Day. Detractors argue Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus brought along slavery, disease, and death when he ...
Genetic testing has finally confirmed the official resting place of Christopher Columbus ... US now celebrates Indigenous ...
No American holiday is under siege as persistently as Columbus ... controversy surrounding Columbus Day. A new research paper from Italy argues that sailors in Genoa — the home town of ...
Despite the inconsistency and the controversy ... it said in a news release. Columbus Day commemorates explorer Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
the second Monday in October has come to be a source of great controversy. Though many still celebrate Columbus Day — a holiday to remember the month in 1492 when Italian explorer Christopher ...
That’s the description of the landing of the first Europeans on the North American continent almost 500 years before Christopher ... like the controversy surrounding Columbus Day.
Christopher Columbus was a 15th and ... other Caribbean islands on this expedition, including modern-day Cuba and Haiti, which Columbus believed were the Indies. While it has been commonly said ...