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Follow me on Twitter: <a href=" In this video I talk about the countries that the United States have, throughout their ...
Join Samuel Gomez and Pataricia Castillo for a powerful week of healing, education, and community building.Dates:Youth ...
My book, ‘Colonial Spanish Teas and Other Essays,’ is a series of essays dealing with events that have shaped Texas since the early times of Spanish colonization and the establishment of many ...
1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...
The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...
In the early 20th century, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s German Empire devised ambitious plans to invade the United States, driven by the desire to challenge America's Monroe Doctrine - which asserted U.S ...
America’s Great Divide: The End of E Pluribus Unum The centralization of power in colonial Spanish America contrasted sharply with the autonomy of British North American colonies, influencing their ...
The deposit also yielded glass shards from the Colonial and early American eras mixed in with trinkets from Spanish Fort’s iteration as an amusement park in the early 20th century.
Presidios were an important part of the Spanish colonial system. In general, they were fortified settlements with an assigned military contingent. Presidios exhibited a wide range of variation as they ...
Seymour escaped with the roughly 40-pound cannon, which she said was probably built in the early 1500s and was carried by Spanish explorers to North America a few decades later.
The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the ...