The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War ...

Believe it or not, four U.S. states were once independent countries: Texas, California, Hawaii, and Vermont, each with a ...

California voted to bar immigrants from schools and social services in 1994. Now most Californians see immigrants as a ...

The move comes as Ecuador's government prepares to auction off 14 new oil blocks in a 2026 bidding round known as "Sur ...

The president’s scapegoating of those of Latino heritage could easily backfire at the ballot box, potentially reversing gains ...

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

America’s empire today is partly formal, though mostly informal, with various grades of informality. The name ‘America’ itself is an imperial grab. The modern American-led ...

Many Mexican Americans remember that California became part of the United States after a 19th century war that cost Mexico ...

The Mexican-American War was a complex undertaking, and one can read up for details. In the end, the US was victorious, and a treaty was signed. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, gave ...

Mexican Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña made a striking comment Wednesday when asked about the ongoing unrest in Los Angeles over illegal immigration. Speaking about American borders and ...

Based on this treaty, Mexico ceded 55 per cent of its territory, which included present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas ...

The purchase of California and 55 per cent of Mexico’s land – disputed lands in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming – for $15 million in 1848 ...