October 12, 1911 - 1911 was the first year Columbus Day was celebrated as a legal holiday in Nebraska. The Nebraska Legislature rejected the holiday two years before and faced resistance despite ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day are being observed Monday, Oct. 13, meaning some places will be closed or have modified hours. The two holidays -- although seen as ...

Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all — they're about whether America should exist. "Columbus's journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, ...

There may have been anywhere from over 5,000 to over 7,500 people gathered in the Mesa Junction when Pueblo's Christopher Columbus Monument was unveiled on Oct. 12, 1905. While there was not the same ...

President Donald Trump renewed the focus of Columbus Day to be celebrated on the second Monday of October, reclaiming the explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue,” ...

Columbus Day commemorates the voyage and landing of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492. For the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage in 1892, President Benjamin ...

A group called The Resilient Indigenous Action Collective called for the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Square in Syracuse. New York State recognizes Columbus Day as a paid ...

Every October we return to the argument over Columbus Day: what it means, who it honors and whether it belongs on the calendar of modern-day America. We rehearse the same old script: discovery versus ...