Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Politics / Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders. Jeet Heer ...

In this month’s article on library history, we’ll explore the origins of libraries in the American colonies. Private ...

IT HAS BEEN Bad Bunny’s biggest, baddest month yet. Last week the Puerto Rican singer, Spotify’s most-streamed artist in four of the past six years, became the first musician to win an ...

Rare heart-shaped silver cobs from Potosí challenge assumptions about colonial coinage and hint at a deeply religious purpose ...

When Bad Bunny said “God bless America” during the Super Bowl halftime show and then began naming countries across the ...

Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica announced the sale of its Chilean unit for $1.2 billion on Tuesday in its push to leave Latin America and concentrate on core markets elsewhere. Once a jewel in the ...

Aid workers assist African migrants after dangerous ocean crossing to reach Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, in August 2024. Credit: iStock (Canary4stock) Even as the European Union prepares ...

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...