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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

As anyone who made it through third-grade American history may recall, the Brits had a bit of a political and cultural impact on the new world. British-inspired homes, for example, are so prevalent in ...

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 ...

One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a familiar story: As history books tell it, the Europeans brought their religion to the ...

Mature palm trees bring elevation and the tropics to this brand new mansion in the San Rafael Country Club area of Marin County. Even the address - 10 Margarita Drive - conjures vacation. The Spanish ...