Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christopher Columbus, whose real name was Cristoforo Colombo, was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, part of what is now Italy ...

Christopher Columbus was both a maritime navigator and a living question mark. Many aspects of his life and discoveries ...

Christopher Columbus was Spanish. He was also English, French, Portuguese, Croatian, Greek, and even Swiss. Over the centuries, researchers and writers have traced his birth to more than a dozen lands ...

When Christopher Columbus sailed westward from Spain in 1492, he did not expect to find paradise. He was looking for a shortcut to Asia, a new route for spices and gold. Instead, he stumbled onto ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s traditional approach to American history is extending to Columbus Day with a proclamation celebrating Italian explorer Christopher Columbus as “the original American hero” and ...

President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to recognize Oct. 14 as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa, now part of ...

“Christopher Columbus is still alive.” So writes Matthew Restall in his biography of the weaver’s son from Genoa who became one of the most famous people of all history and, we might say, the greatest ...

Christopher Columbus remains an important figure to Wilmington's influential Italian community despite his evolving legacy.

President Trump on Sunday vowed to bring Columbus Day back “from the ashes” — railing against critics of the controversial European explorer who the holiday honors. Columbus Day remains largely a ...