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Articles with keyword "Spain"

Carlota Santana dancing

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Flamenco Family Portrait

How New York became a hub for Spanish dance.

Jicarilla Apache cowboy

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Yippie Ki-yay Santa Fe

Real and imagined cowboys in New Mexico.

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Friars, Soldiers, and Settlers

A multimedia website describes the overland journeys of California's early explorer, Juan Battista de Anza.

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Songs of the Sephardim

Scholars are saving the ballads and poetry of a dispersed people.

Sixteenth-century Spanish vessels

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Underwater Clues

Two of Florida's oldest shipwrecks reveal colonists' hopes.

Photograph of Fort Ross

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Russian Dreams of an American Colony

Fort Ross on California's rocky coast contained an oasis of Russian refinement.

Book jacket for "Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch"

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Lorca, American Style

In spite of generations of poets and translators' efforts to categorize Federico García Lorca, his talent remains untamed.

The Great Mosque of Cordoba

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Thieves of Pleasure

A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.

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How to Lose Weight and Gain Power

From The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of a Castilian Culture, © 2008 by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale.

Image of Tres de Mayo (1814) by Francisco de Goya

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The Spanish Ulcer

Napoleon, Britain, and the Siege of Cádiz.