UNESCO has declared Panama’s colonial trade route a World Heritage Site, recognizing its historic role in global commerce and ...

Signs demanding “LA belongs to Mexico” and “This city was once Mexico and it belongs to us” have been prominent among raging ...

Samuel Melcher Strite was born on June 2, 1866, in Leitersburg, and went on to become known as the "Hero of Manila." ...

Today, the dollar sign is a symbol of American power. Learn how this unusual character evolved from colonial currency to the center of the financial system.

Spain failed to heed that warning and paid the price when they failed to clear a low cross. Arsenal’s Mariona Caldentey for ...

The mayor of Perris, Calif., is urging residents to stay indoors and be wary of people they do not know amid ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the area.

Casa Rosada (the Pink House), where the Argentine president and his ministers work, is also located on Plaza de Mayo but on ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

Eventually, people who converted from Islam would be expelled as well. Among Jews who converted, some sought new lives within the rapidly expanding Spanish empire. As the historian Jonathan Israel ...

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

The three-century-old Spanish empire was obsessed with blood—how it conveyed lineage and, in the Spanish view, confirmed virtue.