High school students are likely to learn about the Inca, Maya and Aztec civilizations as representatives of pre-Columbian Latin America. They read about Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés, ...

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

Not so long ago, a U.S. military operation to oust the leader of a Latin American country, like the one the Trump ...

History professor Mikael Wolfe and graduate student Luca DeCola write about the historical context of America's intervention ...

Pt. 1: Foregrounds and backgrounds: This land, this people -- The Indian background -- The Iberian background -- The African background -- Pt. 2: The Iberians in the new world: Discovery and conquest ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

Through the study of cultures, societies, and history of the Latin American region and Latin diaspora, the interdisciplinary minor in Latin American Studies (LAS) helps students develop: global ...

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: ...

The Cold War did not stop at Europe’s edge. Across Latin America, coups, revolutions, and secret interventions reshaped politics as Washington moved to block communist influence. This episode traces ...