The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. Its present-day creativity draws on its Native American and Mexican ...

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America at the Blanton Museum of ... which was a major symbol of the Spanish empire. “The woman wearing this was trying to make a statement ...

In 1898, the short-lived Spanish-American War saw Spain lose its last major colonies: Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. Brought about by humiliating naval defeats, these territorial losses ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous ... of North America almost thwarted English, French, and Spanish colonists. Although suffering defeats, Native Americans ...

"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 ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte’s occupation of the Spanish peninsula in 1808, most of Spain's South American colonies removed themselves from European control and functioned as sovereign states.

At a conference on the Spanish language held in March, Buenos Aires-born journalist Martín Caparrós proposed renaming the language “Ñamericano” to remove its colonial origins. Caparrós ...

Indeed, in the Spanish view, the quest to spread Catholicism ... who was said to control storms in what is now Colombia. Labeling Latin America and its colonial period uniformly “Catholic ...