A statue of Puerto Rico’s first colonial governor was toppled overnight in San Juan ahead of a visit by King Felipe VI of Spain to commemorate 500 years of the Caribbean capital’s founding. Officers ...

Spanish interest in what later became known as the American Southwest focused on discovering and acquiring mineral wealth. Economics drove exploration much like it does modern commerce. The Regal ...

Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca first set foot on land that would become Texas in 1528, when his crude raft ran aground near Galveston Island. The raft held survivors of an ill-fated ...

Puerto Ricans had a message to send to the King of Spain prior to his scheduled visit to the Caribbean island and it damn sure wasn’t a welcoming one. According to the Associated Press, a statue of ...

May 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto becomes the first European colonizer to discover the Mississippi River. In 1909, President William Howard Taft ...

A statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was toppled early Monday morning by unknown people in San Juan, Puerto Rico, just hours before a visit from the Spanish king the Associated Press ...