A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Americans like to believe that the US is a wealthy, indestructible country, but as government debt piles up and inflation ravages the economy, perhaps they need ...

This is the first in a two-part series on Central America’s history and present, featuring scholars Hilary Goodfriend and ...

The Habsburgs were an influential European dynasty that ruled much of the continent for centuries, and to keep their power ...

When I was based in Brussels, I once compared the EU to the 16th-century Spanish empire: multinational, often slow-moving and administered by a European Commission whose departments, known as ...

Soon, the area would transform into the seat of power for the Spanish Empire north of the Rio Grande River—becoming the oldest capital city in the United States. History enthusiasts will ...

Edu played a leading role in helping Arsenal become challengers once more. Now he's hoping to help Marinakis' clubs pursue ...

(Alex Bowie / Getty Images) Central America won independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, spent two years as part of the Mexican Empire, and then nearly two decades as a fragmented federal ...

The longest continuous war in recorded history, the Iberian Religious War, was fought between the Catholic Spanish Empire and the Moors from North Africa. Commonly referred to as the Reconquista, it ...

The spiritual tradition of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday is a public holiday in many countries formerly part of the Spanish Empire — among them Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, ...