Across the rise and fall of global powers, few stories carry the weight and complexity of the Spanish Empire at its height.

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire (United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Stein, Stanley J., Stein, Barbara H. Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe ...

The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the ...

The Battle To Be Top Dog. This is the first in a two-part series. For nearly four centuries, the world economy was on a path ...

Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC ...

On October 10, 732 AD, the Frankish leader Charles, nicknamed Martell (the Hammer), defeated the Muslim army near the French cities of Tours and Poitiers, thereby halting the invasion of Arab Muslims ...

A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian ...

A new exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum in New York traces the many folds of Spanish fashion from 1550 to 1700.

Last fall, the Middlebury College men’s soccer team had the luxury of four NCAA Tournament home playoff games as part of a ...