Never mind he's a scholar and fully 52 years old. Historian Michael Wood is like a schoolboy just bursting to tell you the latest. Of course, his latest is likely to be centuries ago. But in his ...

A conquistador of yore stumbles out of the turbulent waves of the sea. A woman's voice informs us that the impossible has occurred: This man is a ghost, the last of the vicious Spaniards who ...

Conquistadors is a documentary retelling of the story of the Spanish expeditions of conquest of the Americas. In this 4-part series historian Michael Wood travels in the footsteps of the Spanish ...

Anthony Ramos learns about his 15th great-grandfather's fate at the hand of a conquistador Anthony Ramos' 15th great-grandfather, Andrés de Llerina, an indigenous person from Tenerife, Spain, faced ...