The first peach pits were brought to North America by Spanish explorers, but Indigenous communities were the ones responsible for helping the fruit take root. Researchers at Penn State found that ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he planned to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America ...

Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Columbus made his way to Spain, where he gained support from the Spanish ... in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a ...

It was an electrifying statement—Spanish explorers who were scouring the New World for Native American treasure had heard persistent tales of the fantastic wealth of the so-called Seven Cities ...

Seymour escaped with the roughly 40-pound cannon, which she said was probably built in the early 1500s and was carried by Spanish explorers to North America a few decades later. Seymour ...

A class of Fayette Elementary fifth-graders brought history to life Wednesday through a series of short plays about early European explorers of North America. In one play, student Luke Sullivan ...