Transcription of an article from the National Tribune about the death of the first American killed on Cuban soil during the Spanish-American war.

Diary of a member of Battery A, First Brigade, of the Pennsylvania National Guard Volunteer Artillery consisting of four officers and 78 enlisted men were the first mustered into the Spanish American War service from Pennsylvania.

Two maps and four accounts of the Spanish exploration of North America that reflect the goals of the conquistadors and fascination with the land they examined-and the brutality of their treatment of native peoples.

Two Spanish accounts of enslaved Indians in the Caribbean and enslaved Africans in Mexico and statements of the difficulty of maintaining slavery and the lurking threat of a slave revolt.

Find out about the "Angel of the Battlefield" as you learn about the life of this remarkable woman. Clara Barton served others throughout her life and founded the American Red Cross. (In Spanish)

This site from the National Park Service details John White and the colony of Roanoke.

A Spanish, an English, and a French account of the enormous challenges in maintaining a colonial presence in North America and of the potential national loss-of pride, wealth, and possibility for expansion-if nations abandoned these...

A political cartoon depicting a Union and a Confederate veteran united in support for the Spanish-American War. A painting entitled Twelve-Inch Gun depicting elegant officers and ladies aboard a battle ship, civilizing gentility and the...

A series of illustrations and accounts of Spanish conquest of Indians that reflect the fascination with and the brutality directed against native cultures.

A Spanish Franciscan and a French Jesuit report on the reciprocal relationship between natives and Catholic missionaries as Europeans settled New France and New Spain.

Three illustrations and five documents about slave codes, master-slave power dynamics, and free blacks within French and Spanish settlements of the Caribbean.

Country information at-a-glance from the UN's site for children. In Spanish. Select a country to see its location, major cities, population statistics, links to country newspapers, UN mission contact information, and economic, health,...

Read this brief introduction to the Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi, as they lived prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 1500s. Find examples of their pottery and their cliff dwellings.

Three maps of European settlement in Virginia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Spanish New World, and the accompanying official instructions from lenders and monarchs about the obligations, opportunities, and hopes that those...

Four accounts of the visits to and growth of colonial cities in Spanish, British, and French New World settlements that demonstrate why certain communities developed successfully.

Two eighteenth-century maps and four accounts of the mutual perceptions, suspicions, and observations between Spanish and French explorers on the Gulf Coast.

Three documents reflecting official views of how to rule and regulate a successful colony in New France, Jamaica, and the Spanish Indies. Includes teacher reasources for framing discussion.

Five documents representing the full range of Indian-European antagonisms, struggles for power, and outright warfare among the Spanish, Pueblo, Wampanoag, English, and French in New Spain, New France, New Mexico, and New England.

Just two and a half years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Spain experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in modern Spanish history.

This resource has a comparison of statistical data on all Spanish-speaking countries. Countries are compared and ranked according to land mass, population, population density, annual population growth, life expectancy, infant mortality...

Read about the Spanish conquistadors who explored what was to become Spanish America. Included are links to digital collections from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Spain.

Fascinating comparison of Spanish-speaking countries. Includes the flag and a general map of each country. Statistical data is provided for each country. Constitutional and government information is available for each country.

This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army....

Europa Press is a Spain based internet news source providing the latest news, issues, and events across the nation. Content includes economy, political, cultural and social coverage as well. Written in Spanish and all of the major...