“The world’s most successful empires have been engineers’ creations.” This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Rob Blount, executive director of Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, Florida, talked about the Spanish Empire's presence in western Florida and their ...

Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in ...

A dialect from the state’s earliest Spanish-speaking settlers has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. But its time may be running out. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — There’s a little-known fact amongst those of us who live in Hawaiʻi. For nearly 200 years, the Spanish Empire found and lost Hawaiʻi several times. Since around 21% of Hawaiʻi ...

In the Spanish Empire of 1769, California was remote, walled-off by deserts, mountains and difficult ocean routes from central Mexico. Few Spanish wanted to settle there, even as English and Russians ...