Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Yale professor emeritus John Demos explained the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs by Conquistador Hernán Cortés. He spoke about the advantages that the ...

As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity — and ...

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country's indigenous Mexica people to forgive the nation for the abuses they suffered during the 1521 conquest. Hector Vivas/Getty Images ...

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...

The miniseries is about how Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztec empire. By John Hecht Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate) is in talks with Netflix to develop The Conquest of the ...

A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who led the fall of the Aztec Empire, has ...

This month marks 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlán, the grand city of the Mexicas, what the Aztecs called themselves. Historians and other scholars have yet to agree fully on the devastating ...

MEXICO CITY — These days the Mexican capital is a top spot for travelers eager to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns. The megalopolis has long lured tourists with its mix of modern and ancient, and ...

The Aztec Calendar Stone, a world-renowned monument of Mesoamerican craftsmanship, was buried face-down by Spanish ...

There was an online ruckus a few months ago when social media users got a taste of Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Iliad,” with some readers bemoaning that it sounded too modern while others ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane August 30, 2019 2016-10-08T20:01:42-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7fa/20161008200322003_hd.jpgYale professor emeritus John Demos ...