Many of our college freshman students will have seen and read about the Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. military operation in Venezuela that culminated in the arrest of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, ...

Historians and observers have accused the Trump administration trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign ...

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Historian Alexander Avina joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the modern history of Latin America. Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Ben Dewey Editor: ...

Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin America. The abrupt reversal of policy after 1945 wasn’t inevitable, but it r ...

Many University of Florida students walk through the halls of Smathers Library without realizing they are just steps away from one of the most important collections in the United States focused on ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...

The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Latin-American frontiers / Arthur S. Aiton -- Frontier barbarism / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- The frontier in ...

The Hutchins Center at Harvard University has announced the appointment of Alejandro de la Fuente as the new editor of Transition, the longest running Pan-African cultural magazine in history. Under ...

Featuring works from artists in Latin America and its diasporas, Pop América intervenes in long-held conceptions of Pop Art’s geographic consolidations in the US and UK. Pop América’s centerpiece is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Some freshmen this semester will likely say Maduro’s unusual arrest violates ...