Arts and Heritage

11+ hour, 57+ min ago   (694+ words) Zohran Mamdani wants the explorer’s statue removed, but his moral outrage over conquest becomes remarkably selective once the history moves beyond the West. My paternal grandmother, Giuseppina Scianna, was born on October 12, 1893, in Lercara Friddi, Sicily. Grandma Josey, her mother,…...

23+ hour ago   (235+ words) Musgraves palled around with Democrat James Talarico one day before her rant. Country singer Kacey Musgraves flexed her liberal bona fides at her Dallas show on Sunday by calling Italian explorer Christopher Columbus a “loser.” Musgraves, who palled around with…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (326+ words) A holiday that began as an apology, a joke I repeated at my grandmother’s table, and the thing she never told me. When I was a kid … Columbus Was a Terrible Hero. Italian Americans Still Needed One. A holiday that…...

18+ hour, 34+ min ago   (239+ words) Today's Federal Court decision setting aside the Commonwealth's 2024 cultural heritage declaration affecting Regis Resources' McPhillamys Gold Project in New South Wales helps to restore confidence in Australia's regulatory processes and the integrity of decisions supporting Australia's ability to be a…...

20+ hour, 58+ min ago   (387+ words) Monday was Columbus Day, a day celebrated by people proud of their Western heritage and grateful for the explorer’s contributions... Spencer Pratt Calls Out the ‘Spoiled Brats’ Attacking Christopher Columbus Monday was Columbus Day, a day celebrated by people proud…...

21+ hour, 51+ min ago   (298+ words) History class called, Brandon Texas Rep. Brandon Gill praised Christopher Columbus while defending European settlement and Western civilization in a Columbus Day message. He called Columbus “one of the great men of world history.” The remarks drew attention because Gill…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (321+ words) Seemingly every week, Donald Trump manages to spend more of what he thinks is his own personal piggybank, our hard-earned money, for his frivolous expenditures and “promises”. For those of you who have voted for him, are you happy with…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (740+ words) The traditional Columbus Day observance has splintered like a broken pallet of cultural perspectives. Columbus Day remains in place federally, but the holiday has frayed into a patchwork of competing interpretations of American history. The result is a single date…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (178+ words) Each quarter, Village Preservation updates its chronological catalogue of every designated landmark in New York City since landmarking began in 1965. It’s the only place where landmark designations are shown by date in chronological order, revealing when and how designations have…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (435+ words) Got beef with Columbus, eh? Yesterday was Columbus Day, celebrating the day Christopher Columbus arrived in America in 1492. And look, I know the Italian explorer has a complicated and controversial legacy at this point. In 2021, President Joe Biden issued a…...