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

At its height, the Spanish Empire was one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires in history, spanning continents and oceans. So why did it collapse? In this video, we uncover the key ...

This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History,” seems bold at first, almost audacious.

Besides, mass emigration from Spain was always funneled to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, so there isn’t in the U.S. a diaspora, like that of the Italians or Irish, that clamors to keep ...

Although the Spanish had developed elaborate systems to accommodate indigenous people into their empire, hundreds of sites such as the magnificent El Tajín in Veracruz State, which had been ...

So, over the course of the Spanish empire, we start to see a language once used for describing domesticated animals, of ‘raza’ or race, extended to human beings.

CORDOVA, New Mexico — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities like Cordova ...

“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 ...