Spanish Dreams of Empire Thomas J. Hamilton April 1944 Published on April 1, 1944 THOMAS J. HAMILTON, former correspondent in Spain of the New York Times; author of "Appeasement's Child;" now on duty ...

Learn why Simon Bolívar, once loyal to the Spanish crown, turned against the empire to lead Latin America’s push for ...

This assertion, made by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo in “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History,” seems bold at first, almost audacious.

'A Hearing Before the Inquisition,' engraving by Mexican artist Constantino Escalante. (Public domain) Centuries before New Mexico became a US state in 1912, it was a frontier of the Spanish Empire.

Although the Spanish had developed elaborate systems to accommodate indigenous people into their empire, hundreds of sites such as the magnificent El Tajín in Veracruz State, which had been ...

It is the second volume in Thomas' three-volume history of the Spanish Empire. It covers the years of the reign of Charles V, who was both king of Spain and emperor of Europe in the 1500s.

The End of the Spanish Empire Published Mar 01, 2008 at 6:27 AM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM EST By Newsweek Staff Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member ...

Clash of Empires reimagines the caped crusader like never before, trading Gotham’s alleys for the temples and battlefields of ...