How did Spanish conquistadors design cities in the Americas—and why do so many Latin American cities still follow the same structure today? This video dives into the urban planning strategies of the ...

The Tipperaryman's adventures as a grandee at large in South America involved everything from coca collection to debt ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Learn how Jamaica's parishes developed from Spanish regions to British rule, growing from 7 to 22 and later reduced to the 14 ...

Spanish interest in the region picked up when Russia looked to settle in the Californias in the mid-18th century. While ...

William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so ...

Through radio broadcasts and digital archives, Moskitian activists are reclaiming their history, resisting settler colonial ...

USGS Maps; Top. NASA Images; ... The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire by Koch, Peter O., 1953-Publication date 2008 Topics Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548 ... Chapters devoted to Inca ...

THE second report of the Colonial Primary Products Committee*, dated January 1949, consists mainly of a series of commodity studies, to which is appended a note by the Imperial Institute on ...

A historic French colonial map has emerged from the French National Library, appearing to support Thailand's longstanding claims to the disputed island of Koh Kood, which has become a flashpoint in ...

Weather maps show that at the end of this week, nearly 40 cities in the UK could experience temperatures of up to 34C - with Kent and Sussex set to be the hottest areas ...

THE SPANISH CONQUEST of the Indies was one of the most important events in history, leaving an ineffaceable impression on global politics, language and culture. Yet among English speakers it is a ...