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.
And good grief--it's a receipt for sugar. I do not know enough about Mexican museums to know if there is a movement to look at Cortes with more criticism. I got lost looking at all he had done to destroy the indigenous culture and just put in the clip. IRONY is right!
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!!
This would be a part of the FBI that would be non-political and interesting.
Yeah, I came here just to say "At least the FBI isn't *totally* useless, after all" and wipe egg off my face.
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.
And good grief--it's a receipt for sugar. I do not know enough about Mexican museums to know if there is a movement to look at Cortes with more criticism. I got lost looking at all he had done to destroy the indigenous culture and just put in the clip. IRONY is right!
Cortez left an eyewitness document that is precious, although biased with incomprehension, of by now lost world.
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.