IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This engraving shows Hernán Cortés ...

For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the ...

The first Spanish encounters with Mexico occurred during the early 16th century, with successive explorations by three ...

Anchors that may have belonged to the ships of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés were found in the Mexican Gulf Coast, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced on ...

A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by Conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527 has been returned to the Archivo General de la Nación de México – Mexico’s national archives located in Mexico City, ...

Nearly five centuries after Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés signed it and decades after someone swiped it from Mexico’s national archives, the FBI returned a priceless manuscript page to Mexico on ...

A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who led the fall of the Aztec Empire, has been formally returned to Mexico by the FBI in what officials are calling a ...

A new exhibition asks if the 16th-century Indigenous interpreter was a traitor, survivor or icon Gracie Anderson - Reporter Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940 ...

The FBI has returned a priceless 16th-century manuscript bearing the signature of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico, officials said Thursday. Archivists at Mexico’s General Archive of the ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nearly five centuries after Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés signed it and decades after someone swiped it from Mexico's national archives, the FBI returned a priceless manuscript ...