(WWLP) - Columbus Day is in honor of the day Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492, but some people question the ... 4th-round pick It's been 50 years since the first TV theme song topped ...

Columbus Day is celebrated every year to honor Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on2, 1492.

The first encounter between Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquistador Hernando Cortés took place on Nov. 8, 1519 -- the latter ...

Columbus Day has remained a federal holiday, even as many states and cities rename it “Indigenous Peoples Day,” rejecting ...

Latin America’s ambivalence toward holidays to commemorate the colonizers has taken a turn since 1992. The 500-year ...

And as the calendar turns to October, another holiday highlights similar tensions – Columbus Day. The U.S. has observed the holiday since 1937, commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival in the ...

commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival in the New World. It remains a federal holiday, even as many states and cities rename it “Indigenous Peoples Day,” rejecting Christopher Columbus as ...

A Spanish documentary extolling the virtues of the country's conquest of the Americas now showing in Mexico has added fuel to ...