Now, intrepid scholars are saving those parish baptismal records from war, neglect, and rot. By Paula Wasley...
Latin America
Visual registers of Latin America acquired new characteristics at the dawning of the 19th century. Introduction Alongside...
By Christopher Woolf In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba since...
Attention to detail has led some scholars and historians to read the image for its value as...
Latin America historically has been plagued by political violence. Latin America historically has been plagued by political...
The elite few benefited at the cost of the many until his overthrow and exile. Introduction José...
The Kingdom of Guatemala within the wider Spanish Americas, c.1600 (click image to enlarge) / Image by...
Mayan architecture, Tikal, Guatemala Maya civilization developed in a territory the size of Germany and Denmark together....
Sunrise over Machu Picchu / Photo by Allen Schmidt, Wikimedia Commons Forgotten for centuries by the outside...
Members of a caravan of Central Americans walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border...
The routes of the four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492-1504 to the Caribbean Islands and the coast...
Drawing of Alexander von Humboldt’s concept of Naturgemälde: “a microcosm in one page.” Published in Alexander von Humboldt...