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 ...

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.

Relicarios began to fall out of favor in Latin America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Ms. Egan noted, in part because of anticlerical sentiments and a growing independence movement ...