Called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after it was attacked by an English navy ...

“Power dressing” may not have been a catchphrase in colonial Latin America, but it was undoubtedly a familiar concept. For the elite, a command of fashion signaled status, wealth and worldly ...

Although St. Louis was once controlled by Spain, residents may be unfamiliar with that history and many of the beautiful paintings, furniture, fabric and altarpieces that it produced. The exhibition ...

The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago.

In early summer, Nicole Legnani, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, anticipated a key hurdle in order to teach virtually in fall 2020. Legnani was planning her graduate seminar on colonial ...

President McKinley had hoped to maintain peace with Spain. The U.S. would soon be fighting from the Caribbean to the Pacific.

While patriots fought against the British in the American Revolution 250 years ago on the East Coast, people in the San Diego ...

The popularity of Spanish Revival can be traced back to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The nearly 4 million attendees enjoyed a grand display of Mediterranean-inspired ...

THIS work has a double claim to attention in America;—first, on account of its great intrinsic merit as a narrative of the beginnings of the European settlement of this continent; secondly, as ...

MADRID — A painting from Peru on loan to the Prado Museum here captures an extraordinary moment in Spain’s colonization of the Americas. The anonymous 18th-century canvas portrays the wedding of an ...

COUNT DE ARANDA, Spanish ambassador in Paris, in announcing to Charles III. the treaty of peace and independence of the British-American colonies, used this prophetic language : — “ This federal ...