Abstract. This article examines the fate of people who had escaped slavery in colonial Cartagena de Indias as well as that of their descendants. In the 1690s, colonial military troops captured many in...

culturalstudies · Episode

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The rise of world history courses in American universities appears to pose important challenges to Latin American history. Some say that globalization dissolves cultural differences into a sort of tra...

The Civic Agora · Episode

Abstract. El objetivo de este trabajo es comparar y entender las trayectorias, las interacciones y los límites de las estrategias políticas de los partidos de Democracia Cristiana en Guatemala, El Sal...

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The artifact, among the most prized visual accounts of Aztec history, will be on display in Mexico City for three months

El historiador analiza el pedido del ministro José Antonio Chang de retirar las "ideologías" de los textos escolares y advierte que detrás hay una estrategia retórica y un proyecto político que busca ...

Washington, D.C., September 21, 2026 - As part of a “major case” investigation into the role of General Augusto Pinochet in an act of terrorism in Washington, D.C., the FBI interviewed former secretar...

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Archaeologists excavating Chan Chan, the capital of the pre-Inca Chimú civilization, found an undisturbed mausoleum that held the remains of at least 38 individuals, as well as a trove of rich funerar...

Abstract. Hundreds of Castilian free black men and women obtained royal travel licenses to cross the Atlantic in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as black Old Christians. They settled acr...

Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

AbstractSeveral thousand students joined small clusters of soldiers, workers, and others in revolutionary opposition to the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship that came to power in 1964 and cont...

Explaining Brazil · Episode

O conjunto documental originado a partir da expedição do naturalista Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, é considerado um importante registro científico produzido na América colonial portuguesa durante o sé...

Abstract. This article explains two unique aspects of the New World Spanish empire: its production of hundreds of thousands of royal decrees, and the unique categories that these edicts contained, suc...

This special roundtable brings together four distinguished scholars to examine the arguments advanced in Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters’ recent publication The Radical Spanish Empire: How...

Unión Femenina de Chile: una organización clave del feminismo chileno Entre 1927 y 1935, esta agrupación liderada por Delia Ducoing promovió ideas feministas, la defensa de los derechos de las mujere...

A young activist thought her father’s disapproval of her leftwing views was purely political. Then one evening, a kiss goodbye sent her on a remarkable journey that continues todayBy Meaghan Beatley. ...

In 1677, the Jesuit prelate in Rio de Janeiro, Father Silveira Dias, summarily excommunicated every distinguished member of the city’s municipal council. Although priests frequently quarreled with loc...

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?

Abstract. Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, European traffickers frequented the Caribbean in search of ships to plunder and gained access to Spanish America's closed markets by seizing captives a...

Rollos para pianola: 158 registros sonoros ya están disponibles en la Biblioteca Nacional Digital La Biblioteca Nacional Digital incorporó 158 registros sonoros obtenidos a partir de rollos para pian...

Abstract. In 1976, Augusto Pinochet told Henry Kissinger that Chile was undergoing “a further stage of the same conflict which erupted into the Spanish Civil War.” Pinochet was not alone in this view;...

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AbstractSeveral thousand students joined small clusters of soldiers, workers, and others in revolutionary opposition to the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship that came to power in 1964 and cont...

Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years ago

Latino USA · Episode

La web de genealogía MyHeritage alberga entre sus colecciones una sobre la emigración de los derrotados en el conflicto fratricida a países como México, Argentina o Cuba

HistoryExtra podcast · Episode

Abstract. This article analyzes the personal experiences of African American refugees in Cuba as well as the ways in which the Cuban government sought to mitigate and frequently repress the appeal of ...

To Be Black and Free · Episode

New Books in Mexican Studies · Episode

The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.

Un siglo de debates: la historia del voto femenino en Chile Memoria Chilena presenta “El sufragio de las mujeres en Chile (1865-1952)”, un minisitio que recorre los debates, las publicaciones y las l...

The History-Politics Podcast: Putting the Past to Work · Episode

Hagley History Hangout · Episode

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Abstract. This article proposes expanding the definition of autobiography to include testaments dictated by Africans to notaries in Buenos Aires between 1810 and 1853. Drawing on theorizations of medi...

Hablamos con Magdalena Candioti, especialista en la historia de la diáspora africana, la esclavitud, la abolición y los procesos de racialización en el Río de la Plata, sobre la historia de la poblaci...

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