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

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

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

As celebrations began on the East Coast for the first Fourth of July, a distant Colorado was untouched by British colonials. What did Colorado look like?

One thing is clear: the discovery of these coins not only confirms the ship’s identity but also opens a new window into the scale of wealth, power, and plunder that fueled the Spanish Empire’s ...

Instead, he landed in the Bahamas, kicking off the Spanish Empire. Spain and Portugal soon became locked in competition for new territories and took over Indigenous lands in the Americas, India ...

US News: Katy Perry voiced her support for Los Angeles' indigenous communities, decrying the alleged mistreatment of illegal migrants in their ancestral lands, ...

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.

Over the course of several generations, Ohlone society shifted from a traditional focus on hunting and gathering to agriculture; from holding strict tribal identities to having blended “mission” ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Her pivotal role performing a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” in the 2001 David Lynch movie raised her ...