In this attached video, historian and best-selling author Mary Grabar confronts her nemesis in absentia, the late Howard Zinn, a self-described anarchist-socialist who first and wrongly accused Christopher Columbus of genocide in his 1980 book, "A Peoples History of the United States." Prof. Grabar's research...
Mayor Eric Adams, in a show of unity for all groups, strongly endorses the National Columbus Day Parade in New York City and the celebration of Italian and Italian American culture...
This Columbus Day, we mark the 80th anniversary of the arrests, interments, curfews, and mass surveillance of more than 600,000 Italian American immigrants during World War II. Liberties and civil rights were stripped away by mere presidential proclamation, not for crimes but for heritage, language, and culture...
Dear friends and leaders of our Italian American community, As we approach the end of the summer and gear up for the National Columbus Day Parade and celebration in October, I want to share the good news: Columbus Heritage Coalition is advancing the goals we set at our last meeting to intensify our vigilance on...
If you think the upcoming Columbus holiday is safe, or that a statue in your community of the man who united two worlds with a rickety wooden caravel won't be carried away in the middle of the night, you're dreaming. Some legislators have proposed wiping away the holiday here in New York. Its sponsor in...