Starting out reading Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (2006) by J. H. Elliott, I am immediately impr...

The Treachery and Resolve of Cortés To keep those who remained loyal to the Cuban governor [Valazquez] from returning to Havana and disclo...

The Fall of Old Mexico Among the texts that have been occupying my time the past week or so, and likely will for at least the next week, are...

Four-Day Slaughter: 80,400 Killed After enlarging the Great Temple with shrines to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc in 1487, Mexica priests slau...

W ashington is an echo chamber. One pundit, one senator, one reporter proclaim a snazzy “truth” and almost immediately it reverberates...

Colonial Firearms Assertions of European technological superiority appeal to our common sense. We know that guns are better than bows and ...