Columbus Day will be observed Monday. While many people still honor the memory of Columbus coming to America and use it to celebrate Italian-American heritage, many indigenous people protest it ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, also known as Columbus Day, happens every October on the month's second Monday. This US federal holiday will fall on Monday, October 14, this year.

Sixteen states call it Columbus Day. What the second Monday in October means will depend on where you live. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934. Trump has long complained about Democrats tearing down statues of Columbus, a complaint he made again in ...

The first Columbus Day celebration recorded in the United States was held in New York in 1792. On Oct. 12 — the day in 1492 that Columbus and his ships made landfall not in Asia, as the explorer ...

Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day are observed in October each year. Here's when the federal holiday is in 2023, plus a brief history lesson.

Communities move away from commemorating Columbus holiday. Oct. 12, 2009 -- While Federal government offices in Washington, D.C. are closed for Columbus Day, students in Maryland, just a few miles ...

Organizers of the 39-year-old Columbus Italian Festival, traditionally held on Columbus Day weekend, were not given advance notice of the city's decision, said board member Joseph Contino.

I’m an educator. Our schools must teach students the whole truth about Columbus. When my high school students discussed what they learned in elementary school, their depiction — of a heroic ...

Columbus Day was proclaimed a national holiday in 1934 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to mark Christopher Columbus' arrival on the Bahamian island of Guanahaní on Oct. 12, 1492.