Located in the mountains of Ecuador, this city is one of the largest and best-preserved colonial jewels in Latin America. It was the first to have been declared a World Heritage Site by its more than ...

This class examines the history of Latin America from 1492 until the early ... Topics include indigenous-European relations, slavery, economic developments, the challenges of maintaining a colonial ...

As a historian of Latin America, I’ve paid attention to the ways calendars signal a nation’s “official” values and how countries wrestle with these holidays’ meanings.. Día de la Raza ...

New York exhibit reinterprets Latin America's colonial history ... Dominican Firelei Baez juxtaposes a European map from the 1540s with a mythical female creature to embody "the fears and ...

Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian ...

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America continues at the Blanton Museum of Art (200 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, Texas) through January 8, 2023.