Every Thursday evening at a park in the Pilsen neighborhood, a group of Aztec dancers, some originally from Mexico City, gather to practice the ancestral ritual amid the laughs of children on the ...

Approximately 500 years ago, Spanish forces laid siege to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On May 22, 1521, Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies laid siege ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

Throughline host Rund Abdelfatah talks with supervising senior editor Julie Caine about the "research rabbit hole" she went down while producing the "Tenochtitlán: A Retelling of The Conquest" (https: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The foundations of Tenochtitlan now lie in the heart of the bustling megalopolis of Mexico City and its Zocalo square. Founded in ...

Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan, by Stefan Rinke, Oxford University Press, 328 pages. Contemporary historiography aims above all to treat native peoples seriously, in ...

MEXICO CITY — There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...

Throughline takes us back 500 years to understand the rise, fall and resilience of the great Aztec city Tenochititlán. The story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth.

For centuries, the fall of Tenochtitlan, the majestic, lake-bound capital of the Aztecs or Mexica, has engaged historians and storytellers. To the admiring, conquest was neat, romantic and at once ...

Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For years, the story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth. But a closer look at ...