To study this forgotten migration is to glimpse a moment in which the American South briefly looked...
Mexico
They are neighbors, landlords, patients, and coworkers. They are also, increasingly, a mirror. One held up not...
“Santa Anna’s personal life mirrored the opportunism and self-interest that characterized his political career.” By Ray Scheel,...
The artwork suffered from neglect for 90 years. By Eli WizevichHistory CorrespondentSmithsonian Magazine In the fall of...
Their families paid to dress them in a large gowns, a floral crowns, and other elaborate textiles....
Volunteer collectives are bringing Mexico to the forefront of abortion access. Introduction Once a year, Vanessa Jiménez...
Mexico claims that US firearm manufacturers are fueling illegal cross-border gun trafficking and violent crime abroad. By...
How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art. When the curator...
Tlaxcala as a community and city played an interesting role in Mesoamerican history. Introduction Two men hold...
The monuments erected played a pivotal role in securing the line after the Mexican-American War. Introduction The...
The creation of such a database had been required by law since 2017. Mexico will launch a...
Rivera made a case for the importance of artists in furthering the revolutionary project. Introduction Do you...
The contrast of tall modern buildings and older ones conveys the modern turn and the economic affluence...
In the 1700s, Day of the Dead generated the largest annual market in Mexico City. Introduction As...
This fuels rampant violence in Mexico, contributing to the country’s tens of thousands of homicides every year....
For over a century, the Mexican authorities have sought to extract money from the drug trade by...
For 300 years, Mexico was a Spanish colony and the center of a huge administrative area called...
The post-Diaz Mexican state sponsored the creation of a mural movement in an effort to express and...
The flight of runaway slaves to Mexico is a chapter of history that is often overlooked or...
There are three main periods that describe the trajectory of African enslavement in New Spain from 1519...
Violence continues to rage in Mexico more than a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a...
The map is organized on a grid—as was the actual city it represents. Introduction In 1581, an...
A scholar explains the history of the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and...
Zapata fought with guns. Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros fought with their own...
In an overwhelming and crowded composition, Rivera represents pivotal scenes from the history of the modern nation-state....
They created self-contained enclaves characterized by a southern Protestantism in sharp contrast to Mexican Catholicism. The defeat...
In the sixteenth century, cities were considered to embody an ideal of sophisticated and refined living. The...
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
To understand the struggle for Mexican independence, it’s necessary to explore both the wider, international context and...
The elite few benefited at the cost of the many until his overthrow and exile. Introduction José...