Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Journal of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Volume 44 Issue 1 Iberia in Entangled and Transnational Article 5 Contexts 2019 The Spanish Borderlands Revisited: Engaging the Public in Relating the Place of Spain in U.S. History Charles Nicholas Saenz Adams State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Saenz, Charles Nicholas (2019) "The Spanish Borderlands Revisited: Engaging the Public in Relating the Place of Spain in U.S. History," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 44 : Iss. 1 , Article 5. https://doi.org/10.26431/0739-182X.1329 Available at: https://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/vol44/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies by an authorized editor of Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Spanish Borderlands Revisited: Engaging the Public in Relating the Place of Spain in U.S. History1 Charles Nicholas Saenz Felipe Fernández-Armesto recounts a wonderful anecdote at the start of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States (2014). Standing before a classroom at Tufts University, Fernández-Armesto asked his students to answer what was, by his own admission, a “rather a sneaky question.” “Where, in what is now US territory, was the first enduring European colony, still occupied today, established?” Initial responses proffered Jamestown, Virginia – a response fitting the presumptions of the reigning national narrative.