That said, however, we also understood the day's historic significance as intoned in the nursery rhyme we'd recited all our ...

a federal holiday to commemorate the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas on October 12, 1492. For many, Columbus’ arrival to the Americas marked the coming of civilisation to the continent ...

Claims about Columbus being Sephardic have bubbled up for decades. Early in the 20th century, some immigrant groups hoped ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has challenged long-held beliefs about Christopher Columbus's origins, suggesting the renowned ...

Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, according to a new genetic study conducted by Spanish scientists that aimed to shed light on a centuries-old mystery.

Columbus, as is well known, departed Spain in 1492, when the country’s rabidly antisemitic Catholic monarchs, King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella, had ordered the hundreds of thousands of Jews ...

President Biden recently flew to Arizona to formally apologize to the Native American community for atrocities committed against Indigenous people during the era of federal Indian boarding schools. Th ...

Others have noted the proximity of Columbus’ departure — Aug. 3, 1492 — to the date on which the Alhambra Decree, issued by his sponsors King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in March 1492 ...

After all, he wrote approvingly of the Spanish king and queen’s decision to expel Jews from Spain in 1492. The claim that Columbus may have been of Spanish Jewish descent is by no means certain ...

Replacing it was white text on a pitch black background reading "'Dibs.' -Columbus 1492." The graffiti was an attempt at a joke referencing the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492.