In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. But in 2017, the tradition of honoring the famed Italian explorer may be sinking fast. A growing number of cities are abandoning ship and replacing ...

Members of the Knights of Columbus march down State Street in Chicago’s Columbus Day Parade in 2018. I can’t speak for him, but I believe he and others of his generation latched on to Columbus ...

The largest of Columbus’s fleet, the 150-ton vessel grounded in present-day Haiti on Christmas Day, 1492. Columbus ordered it stripped, using its timbers to construct a village he named La Navidad.

Columbus faced death numerous times. When the Flemish-flagged ship on which he was crew was attacked and sunk off the coast of Portugal, he survived by sheer determination, finding some flotation ...

Self-guided tours of the Pinta and the Nina are available to the public every day at Ditto Landing from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until the crew's departure early morning Oct. 4.

New York City and Chicago will toast the explorer with floats today, and San Francisco held its parade Sunday. But in South Florida, Columbus Day has long been more synonymous with sales at Macy's ...

In Columbus’ day the ship’s speed would have been gauged by dropping something from the bow and measuring how long it took to reach the stern. The Niña’s speed is tracked by satellite.

This Week In History: On Oct. 13, 1992, American Indians lead a group of about 150 people at a Columbus Day protest at a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria, which was docked in ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Nina, the Pinta, but not the Santa Maria, are now in Pittsburgh for Columbus Day. You remember them: "In fourteen hundred, ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." It ...

A little bit of living history will be on display in Fort Walton Beach now through Jan. 2. The Sanger Ship’s Pinta, a replica of one of the Portuguese caravel sailing ships used in Christopher ...

The day usually sees festive parades take place in different cities. The parades have been held for over 500 years since Columbus' fleet of three ships arrived at San Salvador Island, which is ...

A growing number of cities are abandoning ship and replacing Columbus Day — celebrated Monday — with Indigenous Peoples Day, also known by some as Native Americans Day.