Explore California's early history, from Spanish colonization and its impact on Native Americans to American expansion.

Uncover the complex story of how America took control of the Philippines, tracing the history from the Spanish-American War ...

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 ...

Georgia: The last of the 13 colonies, Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe as a buffer zone between British territory and Spanish-controlled Florida. In the American colonies, governing ...

Historians have also noted that the Spanish authorities encouraged the undertaking of these treasure-hunting trips to the Pacific, partly as a means of clearing its American colonies of violent ...

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 ...

In the 1500s, the Spanish were the first to bring enslaved Africans to North America as part of their colonization efforts in Florida and the Carolinas. By 1620, close to 520,000 captured and ...

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 ...