While preparing her 1992 book, Africans in Colonial America, Hall discovered court ... largely because the documents were in French or Spanish. Hall's findings are of particular interest to ...

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America at the Blanton Museum of ... which was a major symbol of the Spanish empire. “The woman wearing this was trying to make a statement ...

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous ... of North America almost thwarted English, French, and Spanish colonists. Although suffering defeats, Native Americans ...

In 1898, the short-lived Spanish-American War saw Spain lose its last major colonies: Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. Brought about by humiliating naval defeats, these territorial losses ...

The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America’s southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. Its present-day creativity draws on its Native American and Mexican ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... country should flex its newfound muscles and join the ranks of colonial powers. Egged on by "yellow" journalists like William ...

At a conference on the Spanish language held in March, Buenos Aires-born journalist Martín Caparrós proposed renaming the language “Ñamericano” to remove its colonial origins. Caparrós ...