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?

Exploring The Spanish Empire Robert Siegel talks with British historian Hugh Thomas about his new book, The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America. Author Interviews.

The Spanish Empire didn’t rise overnight it was forged through conquests, unification, and the age of exploration. Discover ...

At its height in the 18th century, the Spanish Empire in North America included most of what is now the United States. It covered Florida, all of the US's Gulf of Mexico coastline and every state ...

By the late 1800s, the Spanish empire was left with just Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain lost those three territories.

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.