The chance to explore the world onboard a private vessel that's both rugged and comfortable doesn't depend exclusively on today's massive explorer superyachts. Even a tiny yacht like the Vitadimare 3 ...

President Donald Trump's Cabinet and others at the White House broke out into applause Thursday afternoon Trump signed a proclamation honoring Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. "Today we have ...

This week marks the 500th anniversary of Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano’s arrival in New York Bay — and to commemorate it, drivers should get a toll break on his famed namesake bridge, a ...

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Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), who led his expeditions in service of King Francis I of France. As he sailed ...

Generations of Italian Americans embraced Christopher Columbus with little thought to the dark side of his legacy. But as the nation grapples with racial injustice, that ship may have sailed. Now, ...

Five years after statues of storied Italian explorer Christopher Columbus were toppled, beheaded and otherwise vandalized across America in the name of "social justice," the issue has once again been ...

St. John’s — New York’s largest Catholic university — has gone woke and no longer refers to Monday’s holiday as “Christopher Columbus Day’’ in honor of the explorer hailed as a devout Christian. Some ...

A new Connecticut restaurant has book lined shelves inside and a bar called, “The Library,” designed as a nod to the restaurant’s namesake. That namesake is the 18th-century Italian explorer, ...