Central America won independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, spent two years as part of the Mexican Empire, and then nearly two decades as a fragmented federal republic.

But the implications of the Spanish-American War extended far beyond the Caribbean. Warren Zimmerman, ... The presence of American businesses abroad no more makes those lands outposts of an American ...

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 ...

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

Over the three centuries of colonial rule, the Spanish crown appointed 361 viceroys to govern the jewel of its Latin American empire. ♪♪ The Spanish colonialists may have created an elaborate ...

Spanish America’s “fatal error” was “placing the colored race on an equality with the white.” “Ours is the Government of the white man,” he said in 1848, and it needed to remain so.

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.