Here along Florida’s Treasure Coast, public interest tends to focus on the riches scattered on the ocean floor with the remains of Spain’s 1715 fleet. That’s understandable. It’s exciting to imagine ...

Fueled by gold, ambition, and military power, Spain built one of the largest empires the world has ever seen. But greed, war, and economic missteps led to its downfall. Discover the incredible history ...

One of history's greatest upheavals plays out as melodrama and picaresque in this rousing saga of the founding of Spain's Latin American empire. Picking up after Cort ...

For a nation that traces its origins to the first westerly landfall by Columbus in 1492, America knows startlingly little about Spain, under whose flag the great explorer crossed the Atlantic. Reasons ...

A few years ago I was preparing to write a magazine profile of Rodrigo Duterte, who had then recently been elected as president of the Philippines, when I came across “The White Man’s Burden,” Rudyard ...

Every empire has its color. For the Habsburgs in Spain, it was a rich, deep shade of black. It’s the black that luxuriates the royal sitters of Diego Velázquez paintings, a color that was austere, ...

As U.S.-Spain tensions soared, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst didn’t let the facts spoil a good story. Political cartoons mocked Joseph Pulitzer (left) and William Randolph Hearst (right) ...

Rosina Lozano, associate professor of history, researches Latino history with a focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ...