Mission San José in San Antonio fires the imagination about how the Spanish and Native Americans lived together in the mostly reconstructed courtyard. SAN ANTONIO − During a recent road trip to this ...

Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was incorporated.

DOUGLASS — Hundreds of professional and amateur archeologists excavated and explored the site of the first permanent settlement of 18th century Spanish explorers and missionaries in East Texas this ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Markus Bokisch illegally imported vine California from Spain and reignited a Spanish wine movement in ...

The Dicastery of the Causes of Saints has promulgated a decree recognizing that five Spanish Franciscans were killed “in odium fidei” (“in hatred of the faith”) in 1597 — specifically for defending ...

The film traces the history of the California Packing Corporation (Calpak) and its brand Del Monte, highlighting its roots in California's rich past. It begins with the arrival of Spanish missionaries ...

Mormon missionaries Carter Campbell, right, and Karson Pasker, center, review the “Plan de Servicios” with Cuban immigrant Paula Rodriguez-Hereda. TOP: Campbell and Pasker were the first full-time ...

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