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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 ...

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 ...

Mellon Foundation associate curator of American art. There are fashionable ... for almost two decades to build a collection of Spanish colonial art. The era’s artwork is often absent in ...

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 ...

"Well, in the American colonies, the Spanish didn't have all of that proper equipment. So what they would do is basically take a bar of silver and a chisel. They would just slice off a piece of ...

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 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 ...

other countries have mattered more—economically and strategically—in the period of American ascendancy. Besides, mass emigration from Spain was always funneled to the Spanish colonies in the A ...