Author Archives: espanyu

On March 25 1915, Alejandro Barea, the Spanish Consul in New Orleans wires his Ambassador in Washington with typical staccato diction of telegraphs: 200 Spaniards Cherryvale Kansas complain  treatment received in that town without concrete facts. Result: strained relations; an … Continue reading →

From March 12 – March 15, 2018, James D. Fernández, Professor at NYU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, will be conducting a lecture tour sponsored by the US Embassy in Spain.  The main program title is “Una … Continue reading →

(en español en letra azul) Thanks to the generous collaboration of so many friends in the US, Spain and all over the world, 2017 has been another year full of discoveries and milestones for us. Little by little, and all … Continue reading →

We are pleased to translate these two documents we discovered and transcribed today (19 December 2017) at the Archivo General de la Administración in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. [Transcripción del original al final] Mr. Plenipotentiary Minister [Spain’s “ambassador” in Washington, … Continue reading →

LA PLOMADA (English title:  “The Weight of Remembering”) will be featured at the fourth edition of the CEMEDOC Film Festival in Mexico City, November 14-21. The documentary is one of only 14 films, selected from the 740 entries that were … Continue reading →

It was in the Spring of 1867, almost exactly 150 years ago, that Spain’s Consul in New York, Joaquín Marcos de Satrústegui, noticed an alarming trend:  increasing numbers of destitute Spaniards were showing up at the doors of his Consulate … Continue reading →

Some detective work at the Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid has allowed us to shed some light on the process whereby New York’s Spanish Benevolent Society/La Nacional, was founded in 1868.  The club is still in existence, and will soon … Continue reading →

  Zambullirse en las profundidades de un archivo histórico rara vez produce resultados inmediatos y deslumbrantes.  Es cierto que, de vez en cuando, cuando la fortuna le sonríe, la investigadora o el investigador puede dar con un documento clave; una … Continue reading →

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 4 December 1892 SPANIARDS IN THIS CITY Brooklyn Has Quite a Large Colony of them They Learn Very Little of the English Language and are Exceedingly Clannish— Comparatively Few of them Become Citizens, but a Majority of … Continue reading →