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Of Merchants and Nature: Colonial Latin America Through Objects (No. 1)

This new series features five online museum exhibits created by undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin for a class titled “Colonial Latin America Through Objects.” The class assumes that Latin America was never  a continent onto itself. The course also insists that objects document the nature of historical change in […]

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

As Mao used to say, “The revolution is not a dinner party.” Fidel Castro provided the corollary. “But the counterrevolution” he said, “is always more cruel.”

The Battle of Chile

by Nathan Stone “Where is that terrible beauty we planted so long ago?”  -Santiago del Nuevo Extremo  Rodolfo Müller is almost a hundred years old, now.  He still lives in the same house as always, off Simón Bolivar, between Hamburgo and Coventry. That’s in Ñuñoa, a township on the near west side of Santiago.  It’s […]

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser (2017)

by Haley Schroer By focusing on the relationship between race and physical space, Nemser analyzes colonial concepts of race through an unexpected and innovative lens. His investigation of concrete structures and their effect on the creation of Mexico’s caste society spans the Spanish colonial period, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Examining the dynamic […]

The National Museum of Anthropology in San Salvador

By Brittany Erwin With its multiple universities, extensive commercial sector, and fast-growing population, the city of San Salvador has become an important axis of cultural production for the Salvadoran nation. As the country’s capital city, it houses many notable institutions, including the National Archive, The Museum of Art, and the National Theater, in addition to […]

Che Guevara’s Last Interview

by Jonathan C. Brown October 9th marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.  Among the documental gems housed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library is Guevara’s last interview.  It occurred on the very morning of his execution.  A Cuban-American agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, Félix Rodríguez, conducted the interview.  […]

Watch: Beyond ‘Crisis’ and Headlines: The History of Humanity as a History of Migration

On Monday, September 18, 2017, José C. Moya of Barnard College delivered a talk considering migration not as a current concern or “crisis” but as an intrinsic element of the human condition. Moya discusses migration as the very origin of our species, of its “racial” and cultural diversity, its global dispersion, and an engine of opportunity, innovation, and socioeconomic […]

More than Archives: Dealing with Unfinished History

by Jimena Perry In July 2017, as part of my dissertation research, I had the opportunity to participate in an assembly of the Association of Victims of Granada (Asociación de Víctimas de Granada, ASOVIDA), in Colombia. This organization is composed of the survivors of the violence inflicted by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and the National Army during […]

Rodolfo Valentín González Pérez: An unusual disappearance

by Nathan Stone They weren’t all the same.  We know of at least one soldier who had a conscience.  There were several, actually.  Most were weighty figures, captains and colonels who refused to follow orders.  Some of them quit or went into exile.  Others died.  But I’m talking about conscripts, the powerless boys who were […]

The Museo Regional de Oriente in San Miguel, El Salvador

By Brittany T. Erwin In the tiny nation of El Salvador, the West dominates. As a result of commercial and political relationships that developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there has been significant influence in this Central American country from the United States and Western Europe. However, within the Salvadoran context, the predominance of […]

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