Consider the Spanish conquest of the Americas alongside Israel’s assault on Gaza. In many ways, the two events, separated by ...

Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519.

An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to realize he meant ...

The text specifically chronicles the mythology and history of the K’iche’ Maya people of Guatemala which was one of the many groups of Mayan peoples. Popol Vuh is a creation narrative that predates ...

And that is exactly what this book offers: a hemispheric interpretation of the Spanish conquest, the Age of Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Monroe Doctrine, the World Wars ...

It promises to be a history of the New World, from the Spanish conquest to the present ... When the US felt it necessary – as in Guatemala in 1954, Cuba in the 1960s, Chile in 1973 and Nicaragua ...

In the 1990s, while writing his dissertation on the history of Guatemala, he became a part ... all the way from the Spanish conquest to the present of both North and South America.

Well, the signs on Philadelphia’s streets show that Spanish speakers actually use pronouns differently. In Spanish, unlike modern English, speakers must choose between different ways of saying ...

(Brian Lawless/PA) “There was the original conquest, or what they would call the Spanish invasion ... of Lake Izabal and an old nickel mine in Guatemala. (Brian Lawless/PA) Just outside the ...

The Central American country of Guatemala has agreed to ramp up the number of deportation flights it receives from the United States, after a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. At a news ...

which was founded during the Spanish conquest in 1541. By employing radiocarbon dating and other cutting-edge techniques, researchers were able to date the historical smoking gun back to Francisco ...