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

When European explorers first began sailing ... Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, ...

In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas infamously divided much of the world beyond Europe into two halves: one for the Spanish ...

In the early days he was awed by the country they ... men Powell recruited to join his expedition on its scientific exploration of Colorado. Oramel, the older of the two Howlands, had arrived ...

When Spanish explorers reached South America in the early 16th century, they heard stories about a tribe of natives high in the Andes mountains in what is now Colombia. When a new chieftain rose ...

It was an electrifying statement—Spanish explorers who were scouring the New World for Native American treasure had heard persistent tales of the fantastic wealth of the so-called Seven Cities ...

Spanish explorers first set foot in Texas in the ... which is one of the most valuable in America. It is very fertile in all kinds of grain, seed, and stock; and likewise rich in mines which ...

An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse ...

To understand the origins of the legend, we need to go back to the time of the first Spanish expeditions to the northern part of South America. The explorers ... By the early 19th century, most ...

For decades, some Spanish and American Jewish activists claimed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew. Early claims about ... hoping that a connection to the explorer would temper rising antisemitism.