the 500th anniversary of Spain’s conquest of the gold-filled Aztec realm is coming soon: on April 21, 1519, Hernán Cortés made his fateful landing in Mexico. The Spanish had been in the New ...

Long before the Spanish conquistadors made their way to New Mexico, the region was home to numerous tribes of Pueblo people. Today, the cultures of these Indigenous peoples are preserved at the ...

In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan priest, reported to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico City that he’d seen the legendary city of Cibola in what is now New Mexico. It was an ...

In 1541, Spanish explorers established a settlement ... but they did explore present-day Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Kansas. In 1542, the group returned to Mexico. Many aspects of the Coronado ...

chilli and tomatoes—that originated from pre-Columbian Mexico and South America. The cochineal insect was brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadors in the 15th century, and held a worth akin to ...