Five hundred years later, the legacy of Christopher Columbus remains unsettled.

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe. Spanish researchers announced their ...

Across the United States, many celebrate Columbus Day, a controversial federal holiday observed every year on the second Monday in October. It was named after Christopher Columbus, the man credited ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t actually Italian? Paesan-NO. Italian Americans and Columbus Day parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial explorer was a ...

(JTA) — Christopher Columbus was likely Jewish, Spanish researchers have announced in a splashy new documentary aired on Spain’s national broadcaster on Saturday. According to the documentary, the ...

'Columbus sailed the ocean blue' and right into a tangled legacy. Replicas of the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta floating in the ocean off coast during tour to celebrate 500th anniversary of Christopher ...

The findings disrupted the “New World Order” of arrival. Not only did Christopher Columbus not “discover” America, he was far from the first European to set foot in The New World. Vikings adventurers ...

President Donald Trump renewed the focus of Columbus Day to be celebrated on the second Monday of October, reclaiming the explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue,” ...

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Nice to see President Trump burnishing the legacy of “the original American hero,” Christopher Columbus, by restoring the explorer’s name to the federal holiday first celebrated in 1892. The nod to ...

President Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Monday to be Columbus Day, in an effort to "reclaim" what he called the famed explorer's "extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and ...