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.

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

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 ...

COURTNEY SACCO/CALLER-TIMES Art Museum of South Texas's Dr. Coltilde P. Garcia Spanish Colonial Gallery. (Photo: Courtney Sacco) COURTNEY SACCO/CALLER-TIMES Art Museum of South Texas' Dr. Coltilde P.

1. Introduction: Disrupting the grand narrative of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism / Maria Ximena Senatore and Pedro Paulo A. Funari -- Part I: Posing questions in cultural contact and colonialism ...

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

The popularity of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, like so many other memorable styles from the 18th and 19th centuries, resulted from exposure at international expositions, advancements in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlos Rolón, “Boombox Edition” (2018), edition of five (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) The space at Library Street Collective is less explicitly domestic than ...

Declared by the National Register of Historic Places to be “a noteworthy representative of a peculiar residential building type prevalent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century period of ...

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 ...