This episode explores how Spanish explorers, soldiers, and administrators transformed the Americas through conquest, ...

Faced with a fiery debate between the glorious myth of the Conquest and anachronistic revisionism, historians are looking to ...

The former Mexican president describes Donald Trump as “a tough man, but not foolish,” alluding to his negotiating style, and ...

On December 10, 1898, the United States signed a historic peace treaty to end the momentous Spanish-American War. The treaty ...

After the Guadalupe event, Native people uninterested in Christ suddenly flocked by the millions to be baptized. Our Lady of Guadalupe bridged an ocean, uniting Europeans and Indigenous Americans. How ...

New and Post-New Left movements in the region show how historical critique can coexist with political imagination.

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

Machu Picchu has long been the symbol of Peru, but this South American nation is far more than its most famous Inca landmark.

Native to Mexico and Central America, poinsettias have become America’s top-selling holiday plant. Though spectacular in ...

1. The Conquest of America -- 2. The Early Spanish Main -- 3. War on the Aztecs and War on the Incas -- 4. The Enslavement -- 5. Up North: Virginia and Plymouth -- 6. The Wars With Europe -- 7. The ...

Europe’s war on speech and Hollywood’s corporate implosion signal the end of an era and (perhaps) the beginning of another.

In the bad old good old days, even if you spent your American life firmly entrenched against the official American project, your stance still contained a sense of agency. America ruled the world, or a ...