My earlier books set Queen Isabel and King Fernando’s missionary plan for “Española” within the intellectual framework of their actions to Christianize their Spanish kingdoms through the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, and the completion of the Reconquista and...

Mestizo society began on “Española” when Spanish rebels squatting in Xaraguá cohabitated and had children with Xaraguán women and Spanish settlers loyal to Columbus did so elsewhere on the island. Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold depicts the...

Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold released this morning! The years 1498 to 1502 are the least studied and written about of “Española’s” brutal conquest, and the book steps beyond portrayals of Queen Isabel, Chieftain Anacaona, and Columbus...

Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise closely traces Columbus’s life, objectives, and actions as governor of “Española” from September 1498 to his removal in October 1500, a period when he didn’t go to sea and which is often abbreviated or ignored in biographies of...

Biographies of Spain’s Queen Isabel generally depict her extraordinary legacies in giving birth to both modern Spain (ruling Castile and Aragón jointly with her husband, Fernando, for decades and completing the Reconquista) and Spanish America, as well as the...

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I post about Anacaona, the first Native woman chieftain known to resist the Spanish invasion and conquest of the Americas. Traditional depictions of Anacaona relate her preeminent stature as a poet; her uncommon beauty and allure; her...

Columbus and Caonabó: 1493–1498 Retold depicts the war between Columbus and Chief Caonabó in 1495 and Columbus’s subjugation of a significant portion of “Española” by the spring of 1498, largely the chiefdoms of Marien, Magua, and Maguana. But much of Española then...

Leading book review firms and U.S. and Dominican scholars praise Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold for its depiction of the beginning of Caribbean colonialism. Advance reviews include: “Deeply researched, devastating novel of the dawn of...

At last, I announce the sequel, releasing November 10 and now available for preorder at booksellers of your choice! A historical novel, Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold dramatizes from both Native and European perspectives the European...

I finish posting about my recent research trips to Spain and the Dominican Republic with photos of monuments commemorating two famous Spaniards who decried conquest tyranny and fought for the rights of Indians in the New World, Bartolomé de Las Casas and Antonio de...