The Creeks, Cozzens points out, “Lived in a land of abundance,” with vast territorial holdings that were, the American Indian ...

As a historian of colonial Latin America, I often begin such discussions by pointing to a peculiar document drafted several ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Ismael Fernandez grew up in Wilder, Idaho, a town of 1,700 souls surrounded by tall hop plants and stubby alfalfa fields.

The first encounter between Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquistador Hernando Cortés took place on Nov. 8, 1519 -- the latter ...

The history of cowboys in the United States is really the history of cowboys from Mexico - an age old tradition of pioneering ...

Examples presented in Fate of Empires include the Islamic breakout from the Arabian-peninsula in the 7th century, and conversely the Spanish Reconquista and subsequent empire, seeded from two ...

Instead of Ferdinand and Isabella holding court in Spain, the wayfaring Christopher Columbus might have given his TED Talk ...

In the 16th century the Spanish Empire expanded into Mexico, Central America and vast areas of South ... South Sudan and Morocco, a North African country geographically close to Spain.

Seven months of painstaking lab work revealed two encrusted orbs found off Florida’s Atlantic Coast are rare examples of ...

Around 40,000 Inca nobles ruled an empire of 12 million conquered people throughout the Andes mountain range in South America ... work on farms and in mines. Spanish forces arrived in the Andes ...

The empire developed further during the reign of James VI, as territories in North America and the Caribbean ... to places like the Americas. Also, the Spanish, Portuguese and French colonies ...