Cities throughout Latin America hold historical treasures that are world heritage sites thanks to the enormous cultural value that is recognized by tourists from all over the world. The great colonial ...

One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a familiar story: As history books tell it, the Europeans brought their religion to the ...

v.1. The first Americas -- Ceremonial centers in Mexico and Peru -- The cities of classic Mesoamerica -- Peru after Chavín -- Mesoamerica and Peru, 900-1400 C.E. -- The world of early Americas -- ...

The cities of Potosí (Bolivia) and Ouro Preto (Brazil) have played central economic roles during Latin America’s long colonial history of mineral extraction, feeding the Spanish and Portuguese empires ...

While there’s long been a vogue for exhibiting fashion in museums, Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is using fashion to explore art history. Last week, it opened “Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in ...

The Gallup poll checked up last week on U.S. knowledge of South American geography, found North Americans woefully ignorant. The problem: to identify eight of 13 countries (including British, Dutch ...

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously ...

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a ...