Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You can taste the salt in the air in this four-story Southern California gem. Its proximity to the sea is ...

A smiling bride embraces her jubilant groom outside the Santa Barbara Courthouse. Loved ones rejoice around the newlyweds, while tourists speaking in foreign European tongues smile in amusement. On ...

Keaton was also known around the West as a world-class house-flipper, where she bought and resold historic homes in ...

1. Introduction: Disrupting the grand narrative of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism / Maria Ximena Senatore and Pedro Paulo A. Funari -- Part I: Posing questions in cultural contact and colonialism ...

Rethinking the archaeology of 'rebels, backsliders, and idolaters' / Matthew Liebmann and Melissa S. Murphy -- Limiting resistance : Juan Pardo and the shrinking of Spanish La Florida, 1566-68 / Robin ...

I have grown up with both Mexican and Nuevomexicano families. But at age 11, when I was first exposed to New Mexico history and culture, I was mesmerized to learn about New Mexico's "Spanish" past.

Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era Spanish priest. The ...