The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of
England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the
first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the
significance of America s Hispanic past. With the profile of the
United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering
the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been
greater.
This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and
conquistadores who planted Spain s first colonies in Puerto Rico,
Florida, and the Southwest. Missionaries and rancheros carry Spain
s expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling
California, mapping the American interior to the Rockies, and
charting the Pacific coast. During the nineteenth century
Anglo-America expands west under the banner of Manifest Destiny and
consolidates control through war with Mexico. In the Hispanic
resurgence that follows, it is the peoples of Latin America who
overspread the continent, from the Hispanic heartland in the West
to major cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and Boston. The
United States clearly has a Hispanic present and future.
And here is its Hispanic past, presented with characteristic
insight and wit by one of our greatest historians."
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