As described by the chroniclers of the sixteenth-century Spanish de Soto expedition, the woman known to history as the Lady of Cofitachequi made a dramatic entrance to an audience with Hernando de ...

March is Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the women whose stories may not appear as often nor as prominently in our grade school history books as those of their male contemporaries. Such is ...

“The Captain Juan Pardo went out from the city of Santa Elena on November 1, 1566, to enter into the interior to discover it and conquer it from here to Mexico,” read an account of the Spanish ...