An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and granted more power than their counterparts back home.

For renowned historian Jorge Traslosheros, the so-called “black legend” of the Spanish conquest of lands in the Americas ...

Many expeditions have tried to find El Dorado, but has anyone succeeded? Some even lost their head in the attempt.

The most solemn and unique festivals generally take place in areas with large indigenous populations. The southern Mexican ...

The term Astur-Cantabrian Wars refers to the long conflict that the Romans waged along the Spanish Cantabrian coast for a decade, between 29 and 19 B.C. The subjugation of Hispania’s last resistant ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Pets are not forgotten during Mexico's famed Day of the Dead celebrations, when even Fido and Tiger get a ...

According to Rosalía Angulo, a local Mexican cultural artist, the celebration originated in the Aztec Empire in what is now ...

A Spanish documentary extolling the virtues of the country's conquest of the Americas now showing in Mexico has added fuel to a politically charged debate over the legacy of colonialism.

You may have wondered if that delicious roasted fowl that graces your Thanksgiving table is somehow related to the country that shares its name. Wonder no more!

Star of the kitchen is Darren Allsop who serves up starters of butternut ravioli and coal-smoked puttanesca risotto followed by a shared main of black-crusted (garlic, sesame, tahini, and squid ink) ...