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Basque trade with the United States during the 18th century: a...

Desembarco de tropas británicas en Boston (1768), grabado de Paul Revere. Dominio público
A UPV project studies the trade and diplomatic relationships forged between the Basque Country and the United States in the 18th century

A work on the attempts to preserve the memory of the...

Oscar Álvarez-Gila has penned this article analyzing the attempts to compile the history of the Basque diaspora from the 1990s through today

St. Francis Xavier: the Navarrese Saint who spoke in the “Biscayne”...

Representación de San Francisco Xabier
Today, December 3, is the feast day of St. Francis Xavier, as well as the Day of Navarre and the Day of the Basque...

The “agur” that Christopher Columbus included in a letter in the...

Cuando Cristobal Colón usó la palabra «agur»
Colón utilizó la palabra vasca «agur» en la carta que escribió en uno de los momentos más criticos de su vida

“Basques in the Atlantic World, 1450-1824”: An Approach to Basque History...

Today, we'd like to bring you a work by Xabier Lamikiz, professor at the Department of Public Policy and Economic History at the University of...

Azkoitia-born Lope de Olano needs the forgiveness of no king

Lope de Olano. Capitanía de Castilla de Oro
Coinciding with the 510th anniversary of the 1510 discovery by Europeans of the Archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia by Basque Lope de Olano and...

Basque Chronicles: Merchants and Administrators: the role of the Basques in...

Vista de Lima a Finales del siglo XVIII
We've often spoken here on the blog about the role the Basques played in colonial Latin America.  In the more than three centuries separating...

Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Lima, the Franciscans, the Passionists, and...

María Jesús de Agreda
To read the life of Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (Ágreda, Soria 1602—1665) is to discover one of the most influential women in...

The Basque Involvement in the Creation of the European Union: an...

Javier de Landaburu en la sede del Gobierno Vasco en el exilio (rue Singer)
May 9, 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the Robert Schuman Declaration.  It was he, the French Foreign Minister, who laid the foundation for...

Guides to Discover the History of the Basque Sheepherders Out West

Basque sheepherder camped on the range. Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada. Photo by Arthur Rothstein. 1940
The Moab, Utah Canyon Country Zephyr is published in one of those places we're dying to visit because of the important Basque presence there,...