The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

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

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

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

July 7, 1742. Spanish forces with 5,000 men stormed St. Simons Island, aiming to crush Georgia’s British colony. Instead, they met James Oglethorpe and far fewer men in a marsh that would earn its ...

This religious and military conquest was not just a battle for territory,it was a battle for faith, identity, and cultural dominance. Dive into the complexities of the Reconquista, exploring how ...

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.

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.

Telling the History of the U.S. Through Its Territories In “How to Hide an Empire,” Daniel Immerwahr explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48 ...

He argued that the three-year term of the 1795 treaty that had granted America this right and free passage through Spanish territory on the Mississippi had expired.

Brad Winn: Technically, that territory was still Spanish (under French control). When Lewis and Clark arrived in December, they had hoped to move up the Missouri River to get an early start.