The Hispanic roots of America go back hundreds of years. A large part of what is now US territory was once ruled by the ...

We celebrate the Fourth of July with parades, family time and BBQs but it’s an often-forgotten fact that when the Declaration ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

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

After a few weeks of digging into documents at the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court’s office, Caillier said he was able to trace Leo XIV’s mother's side of the family to St. Landry Parish. The ...

Thus, throughout much of British, French, and Spanish North America, European imperial claims to territory depended on the commercial and diplomatic loyalties of Indigenous people.

The U.S. has deployed its bombers to five Indo-Pacific locations that are outside the continental U.S., a Newsweek map shows.

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic Mercator Projection look outright dull.

Should a conflict reach Spanish territory, certain cities would be at greater risk than others. In any armed conflict, both the strategic context and the relevance of the territory are considered.

But the Franco school of imperialism considers Charles V and his son, Philip II, the principal architects of Spain's greatness -- Charles, because he was German Emperor as well as King of Spain, and ...

Google Maps announced last week it updated the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America for its U.S. users after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System made the change official.