The explorer LaSalle, the French explorer La Salle, he misnavigates, so the story goes, and ends up in Texas. He was looking ...

The long-lost mission of Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, one of the earliest outposts of Europe's colonial frontier in ...

Why would you want to annex a territory whose population rejects you? It’s a question that should be asked more often. Spain, for example, has seized on Brexit as an opportunity to revive its claim to ...

I have grown up with both Mexican and Nuevomexicano families. But at age 11, when I was first exposed to New Mexico history and culture, I was mesmerized to learn about New Mexico's "Spanish" past.

Art and Empire attempts to retell the story of Spain’s golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire’s art and its hugely diverse body of subjects. The Spanish ...

While Las Meninas is perhaps the world’s most famous selfie, and Miguel de Cervantes’s edits on Cide Hamete Benengeli’s novel mapped metafiction centuries before it was in vogue, there’s an argument ...

Spain is in turmoil after the shocking abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the US. In Madrid, fierce protests ...

A smiling bride embraces her jubilant groom outside the Santa Barbara Courthouse. Loved ones rejoice around the newlyweds, while tourists speaking in foreign European tongues smile in amusement. On ...