"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... country should flex its newfound muscles and join the ranks of colonial powers. Egged on by "yellow" journalists like William ...

In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan priest, reported to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico ... who were scouring the New World for Native American treasure had heard persistent tales ...

While Congress shelved Lynch’s report recommending colonization, it helped spark the US’s fascination with the Holy Land – and led to the establishment of American colonization projects in ...

THE IMMIGRATION OF EUROPEANS TO SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA TAINTED WITH VIOLENCE IN THE CONQUEST AND IN THE COLONIAL REGIMEThe main motivations of Spanish migrants in the conquest and in the colonial ...

Founded in 1540 on the banks of the River Magdalena, Mompox played a key role in the Spanish colonization of northern South America. From the 16th to the 19th century the city developed parallel to ...