The Spanish conquest might have toppled the Aztec imperial state with startling speed, but unpicking precisely what ‘collapse ...

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 ...

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 ...

"From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the "Indian" ...

The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later. 500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...

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 ...

The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation’s most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish ...

New and Post-New Left movements in the region show how historical critique can coexist with political imagination.

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 ...

A bust of the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, with images of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl on the surrounding buildings, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of ...