Uncover the complex story of how America took control of the Philippines, tracing the history from the Spanish-American War ...

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

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 ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

But the practice exploded with the influx of Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese colonialists, eventually spreading throughout South and Central America, Mexico, the 13 British colonies and what ...

However, the Spanish authorities did not allow them to dock ... the illegitimate son); it is worth noting that in the early British colonial period, American settlements were granted by the Crown to ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte’s occupation of the Spanish peninsula in 1808, most of Spain's South American colonies removed themselves from European control and functioned as sovereign states.

Georgia: The last of the 13 colonies, Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe as a buffer zone between British territory and Spanish-controlled Florida. In the American colonies, governing ...

Georgia: The last of the 13 colonies, Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe as a buffer zone between British territory and Spanish-controlled Florida. In the American colonies, governing ...

There would not be an American Revolution that united all of the 13 colonies that became the United ... might have become Russian, French, or Spanish, but certainly not British.

Although she invited the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez ... and colonial paintings would show the stratified division of society in Spanish colonies in Latin America. Nevertheless, for the Hispanic ...

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 ...