There are only two Federal Holidays known by more than one name — George Washington’s Birthday (also informally known as Presidents Day) and Columbus Day (also known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day). While

Children schooled in the middle of last century grew up reciting the phrase, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” It made the year 1492 one of the most memorable

Columbus Day, a day set aside to celebrate the discovery of the New World by Europeans, has become a source of controversy. The History Channel notes, “Over 500 years after he ‘discovered’