In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that has for a long time been shaped by just one perspective, a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and his small army of ...

During Cortes’s absence, Alvarado’s execution of many Aztec chiefs enraged the people. After defeating Velázquez’s forces, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlan on June 24, 1520, to find the ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

Object Details Author Cortés, Hernán 1485-1547 Chamberlain, Robert Stoner 1903- Notes " [Translated] from a copy of the first eighty questions of the questionnaire in the Residencia of Cortés, ...

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought.

Boston Document signed by Hernán Cortés, found in Mass. auction, given back to Mexico Published: Jul. 21, 2023, 11:45 a.m.