Read this account by Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales that describes the founding of St. Augustine in 1565.

Dr. E's Social Science Webzine analyzes the Bourbon Monarch's C18th reforms that transformed Spain's relationship with her New World colonies.

Internet museum features Spanish military artifacts from the years1650 to 1821. View photos and illustrations.

Links to primary documents about colonial Latin America, conquest and exploitation, and the creation of Latin American cultures.

Describes the ill-fated voyage of a Spanish galleon laden with silver that sank on a Caribbean reef, thereby giving it its name: "Silver Bank."

Modern History Sourcebook provides this excerpt that describes the New Laws of the Indies that were enacted in 1542.

Exhibition provides a visual history of early exploration of the New World, conquest, economic life, missionaries, and native religious beliefs.

Modern History Sourcebook provides these brief biographic sketches of Spaniards in the New World during the colonial period.