Casa Rosada (the Pink House), where the Argentine president and his ministers work, is also located on Plaza de Mayo but on ...

Learn why Simon Bolívar, once loyal to the Spanish crown, turned against the empire to lead Latin America’s push for ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

At 14,115 feet tall, it’s hard to miss America’s Mountain. From the ground looking up, its beauty is breath taking, and from ...

The Spanish Empire of the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 19th, they continue, “would not have functioned without the efforts of the engineers” who made possible the political ...

‘España’ Review: Spanish Empire and Its Aftermath A glorious history and a troubled one: conquest, riches, artistic flourishing—and endless strife.

Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country ...

“Our unique Spanish is at real risk of dying out,” said Ms. Rael-Vigil, 68, who traces her ancestry to a member of the 1598 expedition that claimed New Mexico as one of the Spanish Empire’s ...

Shortly after the Spanish Crown began its expansionary project in the Indies, Vitoria wrote his 1532 De Iure Belli, rejecting the notion that either the emperor or the pope was the master of the ...