The attack on Spanish port of Cartagena during the War of Jenkin's Ear was a total catastrophe for Britain. The death of the commander of the fleet early in the campaign left two inexperienced ...
The first encounter between Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquistador Hernando Cortés took place on Nov. 8, 1519 -- the latter ...
The Creeks, Cozzens points out, “Lived in a land of abundance,” with vast territorial holdings that were, the American Indian ...
A Moral Reckoning(2021) is a much needed corrective to the lies and misinformation being propagated in schools all over the world. For ...
Instead of Ferdinand and Isabella holding court in Spain, the wayfaring Christopher Columbus might have given his TED Talk ...
The 1778 French entry into the American War for Independence imposed several strategic conundrums for the British that ...
The history of cowboys in the United States is really the history of cowboys from Mexico - an age old tradition of pioneering ...
Seven months of painstaking lab work revealed two encrusted orbs found off Florida’s Atlantic Coast are rare examples of ...
When Spanish missionaries arrived in the late 1700s, at least 300,000 people lived among an estimated 200 tribes scattered in every part of California, making it one of the most densely populated and ...
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the ...
As a historian of colonial Latin America, I often begin such discussions ... the Chontal Maya attacked again. Farther north, Spanish expeditioners Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Melchior Díaz ...