The Spanish Empire didn’t rise overnight it was forged through conquests, unification, and the age of exploration. Discover how Spain transformed from fragmented kingdoms into a global superpower that ...

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

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.

Besides, mass emigration from Spain was always funneled to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, so there isn’t in the U.S. a diaspora, like that of the Italians or Irish, that clamors to keep ...

Although the Spanish had developed elaborate systems to accommodate indigenous people into their empire, hundreds of sites such as the magnificent El Tajín in Veracruz State, which had been ...

The Spanish people made it plain that they had no desire for empire, and Primo de Rivera seized power in 1923 with the pledge that he would make peace. Afterwards, however, he was able to obtain the ...