It *is* good news, and yet I can't escape the irony of property once belonging to a "Conquistador" who robbed and pillaged the Aztecs being itself stolen.
This is fantastic! I know there are comments about the problematic nature of Hernán Cortés (which please understand, I fully agree that he and other explorers [not just Spanish conquistadors, by the way] did horrific, atrocious things], but sometimes even simple documents like a receipt authorizing the purchase of sugar can completely change the discourse of historical interpretation. But such documents have to be available to researchers in order for something like that to happen, and a document like that belongs in an archive in Mexico.
Watch for more Cortez items in the news. The FBI had no interest in the case until it discovered an H. Cortez on the Trump donor list.
A great news!!
I'm glad the FBI does some worthwhile work,
It *is* good news, and yet I can't escape the irony of property once belonging to a "Conquistador" who robbed and pillaged the Aztecs being itself stolen.
This is fantastic! I know there are comments about the problematic nature of Hernán Cortés (which please understand, I fully agree that he and other explorers [not just Spanish conquistadors, by the way] did horrific, atrocious things], but sometimes even simple documents like a receipt authorizing the purchase of sugar can completely change the discourse of historical interpretation. But such documents have to be available to researchers in order for something like that to happen, and a document like that belongs in an archive in Mexico.