Five hundred years ago, the army of conquest led by Hernan Cortes marched hundreds of miles across a rugged swath of land from Veracruz on the Mexican Caribbean to the capital city of the Aztecs, now
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (1478–1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo att
Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719) -- mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an Augustinian convent -- inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and
