Explore California's early history, from Spanish colonization and its impact on Native Americans to American expansion.

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story ...

In the 1500s, the Spanish were the first to bring enslaved Africans to North America as part of their colonization efforts in Florida and the Carolinas. By 1620, close to 520,000 captured and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historians have also noted that the Spanish authorities encouraged the undertaking of these treasure-hunting trips to the Pacific, partly as a means of clearing its American colonies of violent ...

"Well, in the American colonies, the Spanish didn't have all of that proper equipment. So what they would do is basically take a bar of silver and a chisel. They would just slice off a piece of ...

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 ...