It received federal holiday status in 1934 to celebrate the day that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Historians set that date on October 12, 1492. […] Skip to content.

Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, moved to Portugal in 1476 to start a mapmaking business. At the time, called the Age of Exploration, Portugal was a leader, having already discovered the ...

With both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day being celebrated on Oct. 9, some are asking if Christopher Columbus was really the first European in America. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Most of us were taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Yet it is far from clear cut. There are alternative theories about who got here first — some well-documented, others much ...

Columbus did not “discover” America. As a Native American once told me, “It would be like me getting on a boat in 1492 and sailing from America to England.

Although many of us were erroneously taught that “Columbus discovered America,” he never set foot on soil within our national borders and famously didn’t comprehend that he had encountered ...