Hispanic American Historical Review

12/12/2025

HAHR author Casey Schmitt discusses her research on the 16th- and 17th-century Caribbean with the John Carter Brown Library. (You can read more of this research in HAHR here via Duke University Press: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10368920)

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12/11/2025

For Aeon magazine, historian Ana Lucia Araujo discusses the history of slavery in the Americas.

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?

12/10/2025

HAHR board member Caroline Dodds Pennock discusses the Aztec Empire in comparative perspective on the BBC History Extra podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YiovduQTX0ZejPeTA3pWn?si=6_Q5TVsRRkGiJpkEEaR1lA

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12/09/2025

In this panel from El Colegio de México's Centro de Estudios Históricos, HAHR authors Erika Pani and Paolo Riguzzi discuss their latest books on the US and Mexican civil wars, diplomacy, and the intertwined crises that reshaped republicanism across the continent.

El Centro de Estudios Históricos tiene el gusto de invitar al conversatorio en torno a dos novedades editoriales:"Guerra, Política y Estado: Los dilemas de M...

12/08/2025

The Smithsonian Magazine reports on recent archaeological research related to the Inca Empire.

New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca

12/05/2025

HAHR author and board member Alejandro Velasco analyzes and contextualizes recent US actions toward Venezuela.

Is Trump focused on drug trafficking and cartels, or oil and regime change?

12/04/2025

The newest Gastropod podcast discusses the Mesoamerican history of vanilla.

Meet the thrilling alternative vanillas we're all missing out on, for a vanilla tasting party that's guaranteed to make you fall back in love with the world's favorite flavor!

12/03/2025

HAHR board member Magdalena Candioti hosts this episode of the Historiar podcast on the life and legacy of Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Entrevistados: Raúl Fradkin e Ignacio ZubizarretaConducción: Magdalena CandiotiJuan Manuel de Rosas es una figura central de la historia argentina, que por l...

12/02/2025

HAHR author Erika Pani discusses her comparative research on the history of Mexico and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. (You can read more of Prof. Pani's research on nineteenth-century Mexican history in HAHR here via Duke University Press: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-1-1)

12/01/2025

The National Security Archive shares declassified documents relating to Operation Condor.

Washington, D.C., November 26, 2025 - On General Augusto Pinochet’s 60th birthday, November 25, 1975, four delegations of Southern Cone secret police chieftains gathered in Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of the Chilean intelligence service, DINA.

11/26/2025

HAHR author John Marquez discusses at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History the story of Marcelina Dias Silvestre, an enslaved woman in Brazil named who petitioned the Portuguese crown at the turn of the eighteenth century for her manumission. (You can read more of Dr. Marquez's research on freedom suits in the South Atlantic world in HAHR here from Duke University Press: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8897477)

Title: GLC@Lunch: “Freedom on Three Coasts: Slavery, Law, and Belonging in the South Atlantic World”John Marquez (GLC Research Affiliate; Assistant Professor...

11/25/2025

In the newest HAHR from Duke University Press, Evergton Sales Souza examines the story of Manuel de Figueiredo, an enslaved person in eighteenth-century Brazil accused of bigamy.

Abstract. Este artigo trata da história de Manuel de Figueiredo, escravo do Engenho de Santana (Ilhéus), da Companhia de Jesus. O ponto de partida é uma