The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran ...

a region that connects North and South America. It discusses the impact of Spanish colonization, highlighting the agricultural practices of indigenous tribes and the introduction of crops like ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

The Spanish colonial style home was later revived in ... The French started settling in North America in the early 16 th century, especially after early explorations of the Atlantic coast by ...

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... country should flex its newfound muscles and join the ranks of colonial powers. Egged on by "yellow" journalists like William ...

In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan priest, reported to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico ... who were scouring the New World for Native American treasure had heard persistent tales ...

After more than a decade of ownership, married Tinseltown stalwarts Brad Bird and Elizabeth Canney are saying so long to their historic Spanish Colonial Revival home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of ...