But Spanish settlements would now endure hostile raids from Apache and Comanche warriors migrating south, under pressure from European settlers moving west in North America.

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

At its height, the Spanish Empire was one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires in history, spanning continents and oceans. So why did it collapse? In this video, we uncover the key ...

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 ...

In the context of this discussion, it is tempting to assume that 'empire = bad thing', but although the building of empires often leads to the suffering of indigenous peoples (including, lest we ...