Hispanic American Historical Review

07/21/2025

Memórica México has digitized 16th-century documents recently recovered by the Archivo General de la Nación.

En febrero de 2022, en el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, personal de la SRE entregó al AGN un conjunto de documentos que habían sido sustraídos de forma ilegal en el pasado, y que pertenecían al Fondo Hospital de Jesús, el más antiguo del AGN.

07/18/2025

Memoria Chilena has newly digitized archival materials relating to the history of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and its director from 1910 to 1927, Carlos Silva Cruz.

Carlos Silva Cruz y su visión de una nueva Biblioteca Nacional Director de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile entre 1910 y 1927, Silva Cruz materializó el traslado de la institución a su edificio definitivo y promovió una concepción de las bibliotecas como un espacio público complementario a la e...

07/17/2025

HAHR author and former senior editor MatthewRestall discusses historical memory and mythmaking around Hernando Cortés, Moctezuma, and Christopher Columbus. (You can read more of Prof. Restall's work in HAHR here: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2694300)

Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Matthew Restall for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona! In a staircase mural i...

07/16/2025

An interview with Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz and Patricio Leyton Alvarado, authors of the article “Astronomy and Politics in Chile,” recently published in HAHR.

Almanaque astrónomico de Chile para el año 1910 (Santiago de Chile : Imprenta de la Oficina del Tiempo, 1910). Find the full document at https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-63951.html. Interview with Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz and Patricio Leyton Alvarado, authors of “Astronomy a...

07/15/2025

The Smithsonian Magazine reports on recent archaeological research on the Classic-period Maya.

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ancient city of Caracol

07/11/2025

An extensive digitized collection of Colombian periodicals from the end of the 18th century to the first half of the 20th.

En esta colección encontrará publicaciones colombianas y extranjeras, editadas entre finales del siglo XVIII y la primera mitad del siglo XX. Estas obras ofrecen una gran riqueza documental, derivada de piezas únicas y grupos de publicaciones de diversas ciudades, que abordan acontecimientos pol....

07/10/2025

The Smithsonian Magazine reports on recent pre-Columbian archaeological finds in the Brazilian Amazon.

The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains

07/09/2025

An interview with Andrew Nickson, whose article "Great Britain and the War of the Triple Alliance: The Lincolnshire Farmers Colonization Scheme to Paraguay and the Fourth Ally Thesis" was recently published in HAHR via Duke University Press.

Depiction of village of Itapé in 1875, two years after the Lincolnshire Farmers were settled there. From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12960 Interview with Andrew Nickson, author of “Great Britain and the W...

07/08/2025

The Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia has recently digitized issues of Jornada, the weekly newspaper founded in the 1940s by Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.

Visor de recursos digitales seriados de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia.

07/07/2025

The Smithsonian Magazine reports on a recent archaeological discovery in Lima possibly related to the the Chancay culture.

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the rise of the Inca Empire

07/02/2025

An interview with Marc Becker, whose HAHR article “The Complex Dynamics of Indigenous Education in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ecuador as a Theater for Political Debate” was recently published in HAHR via Duke University Press . https://hahr-online.com/interview-with-marc-becker-author-of-the-complex-dynamics-of-indigenous-education-in-mid-twentieth-century-ecuador-as-a-theater-for-political-debate/