Many US states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a ...

This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year ...

The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the ...

In short, you probably do not think of a place like Los Angeles. But maybe you should. Technically, it’s not a prison town.

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

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

Nafpaktos in Greece is celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto that will include a display of battling ships and fireworks.

Since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1493, Cuba was considered the "Pearl" of the Spanish Empire--not only for its beauty, but also its sugar plantations. However, by the middle of the ...

Martin Zubimendi seemingly came quite close to completing a move to Liverpool in the January transfer window. Real Sociedad’s ...

Cops say heavily tattooed Estefania “La Barbie” Primera is the queen bee of the gang’s sex trafficking operations she ran out ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

Hernán Cortés Hernández, namesake of the infamous Spanish conquistador, is the new commander of the National Guard in Mexico.