With the threat of immigration sweeps, more customers have been walking in hesitantly and asking if there have been any ICE sightings. Some customers don’t come at all. Instead they send in their kids ...

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.

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

Watch Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano face off on top of the Empire State Building ahead of historic boxing trilogy.

Yet, they carried their Apache spirit in language, song, and ceremony — often taught in secret, in arroyos at night, or whispered in the safety of their homes. Elder Juan Rojelio remembered how, as a ...

New York City is testing new bins to contain the 14 million tons of waste it produces each year.

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

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

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.

At its height, the Spanish Empire was one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires in history, spanning continents and oceans. So why did it collapse? In this video, we uncover the key ...