Centuries after Christopher Columbus traveled to the Americas, his legacy remains complicated. And that's where the Columbus Day debate continues, including periodic calls to dump the holiday, or ...

The lessons learned from the Langley’s decade of carrier flight operations in the interwar period directly influenced the ...

Replicas of two of explorer Christopher Columbus' seafaring ships sailed out of the distant past and into the Hudson, Wis., harbor Thursday, looking small amid the St. Croix River's big yachts and ...

Columbus Day is currently one of 11 holidays recognized by the federal government. But President Donald Trump says he's bringing the commemoration of the Italian explorer's 1492 journey to the ...

There has been much criticism of President Donald Trump’s order to return the name of the Oct. 12 holiday from Indigenous Peoples’ Day to the original Columbus Day first celebrated nationally ...

The Nao Santa Maria is a "faithful, full-scale historical reproduction" of the ship used by Christopher Columbus on his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, according to the Nao ...

In short, Columbus wasn't the first European to reach the Americas. But he made the most of it, for better or worse. And that's where the Columbus Day debate continues, including periodic calls to ...