From the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 to the intervention in Venezuela, Washington has dominated the American continent by force ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Latin Americans want the U.S. public to understand, and grapple with, this history.

On Sunday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva published an op-ed in The New York Times titled "This Hemisphere Belongs to All of Us." In the article, he stressed that the peoples of Latin ...

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 ...

President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. intervention in the Caribbean basin, rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine but ...

Historical, cultural, economic and political relations between the Americas have made Latin American studies an important field of inquiry for numerous disciplines. The number of Hispanic people in ...