by Alaina Pagulayan | Apr 24, 2026
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies In his A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de las Casas detailed the horrific mistreatment of the Indigenous peoples by Spanish colonizers in the Americas. One of the most moving and emotionally...
by Nicole Pena Gonzalez | Apr 30, 2025
The image “Witchcraft at Salem Village,” created in 1876 by William A. Crafts, sheds light on a tragic and important time in early American history — the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. During the late 1600s, people living in the English colonies of New...
by Makaia Morris | Jul 10, 2023
Home to, now, approximately forty-five million individuals, the Caribbean or better known as The West Indies, makes up 1,063,000 square miles of beautiful, tropical islands. The Caribbean sovereign states consist of thirteen countries that are located in the Caribbean...
![Porto Rico [San Juan]](https://blogs.shu.edu/americanhistory/files/2021/05/1671_Porto_Rico_Arnoldus_Montanus.png)
by Rebekah Santana | May 3, 2021
In the latter part of the 15th century, while sailing his second expedition, Christopher Columbus came across a small island—an island that long before 1492-1494 had been inhabited by the Taino population, and that at the time was called Boriquen. The Taino population...