In the 1700s, Day of the Dead generated the largest annual market in Mexico City. Introduction As...
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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...
Here’s what you need to know about the past, present, and future of this harmful policy. After...
Peruvian Carlos Baca Flor excelled in the study of the nude model and Colombian artist Francisco A....
Architect and engineer Eladio Dieste’s lasting effect on a small Uruguayan town. Do you know who designed...
These images were made in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain by Indigenous artist-scribes in 1531 to...
Why were such lavish portraits of nuns created on the occasion of their profession, and who were...
The theme of protection of Christians and the Christian faith was common in the Spanish viceroyalties of...
In 1646, a Chilean man named Alonso de Ovalle published an illustrated text titled Historical account of the...
The flight of runaway slaves to Mexico is a chapter of history that is often overlooked or...
We see an artist attempting to represent the diverse ethnic makeup of the Spanish viceroyalty of New...
They followed a similar pattern of studying abroad for a few years and returning home to teach...
The map is organized on a grid—as was the actual city it represents. Introduction In 1581, an...
These texts excruciatingly detail the human horror and the treachery of a mass murder, now known as...
The sacred festivities date back to to the foundation of the city Tenochtitlan in the 14th century....
Zapata fought with guns. Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros fought with their own...
The more we learn about these cultures, the more we appreciate what was special about each of...
Works of Mesoamerican art often include references to calendars and time. Introduction We think of calendars as...
In an overwhelming and crowded composition, Rivera represents pivotal scenes from the history of the modern nation-state....
An archaeologist’s hip surgery prompts him to think of the experience of a Puebloan woman who survived...
Exploring the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican people who built a vast empire in what is today central Mexico...
The travel literature, which did not have Brazil as final destination, could have disproportionate and unsuspected repercussions....
How a symbolic climb changed two men. This is the story of one of the tallest volcanoes...
Traditional narratives of Europe as the center of history and culture and myths of discovery are addressed...
Exploring an allegorical work reminiscent of the style of the Mexican mural movement. The Chicano History mural...
Religious orthodoxy was critical during this period of the Counter Reformation and was enforced by the Inquisition...
This was a ritual device intended to promote agricultural fertility. Introduction Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, in...
The Portuguese colonization of Brazil was initially quite different from the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Introduction...