Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, ...

Guacamole was a spiced avocado mash before colonization. These days, it’s hard to get without lime and cilantro (both ingredients brought to the Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese).

Uruguay, a small yet significant nation nestled between Brazil and Argentina, has a fascinating history that earned it the ...

Spanish women played a critical yet lesser known role in the colonization of the Americas by mastering their ability to assert power in the New World. It all began with Queen Isabella I of Castile ...

Serra’s critics say he destroyed Native American tribes and cultures as part of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The monument of Serra was torn down at a time when protesters across the ...

was researching cow bones from 16th-century archaeological sites in an effort to understand the introduction of domesticated cows to the Americas during Spanish colonization. He conducted DNA ...

In Latin America and to many U.S.-based Latinos ... of an ongoing spat between the two countries over the history of Spanish colonization. Spain’s current government, led by the progressive ...

and again during European colonization. A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice -- once during the first wave of human migration across the Bering ...

Egan has spent decades rummaging around markets and antique stores across Latin America in search of ... of religious art created during the Spanish colonization of the New World.