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 ...

“Power dressing” may not have been a catchphrase in colonial Latin America, but it was undoubtedly a familiar concept. For the elite, a command of fashion signaled status, wealth and worldly ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

This is the season of patriotism in Latin America as many countries commemorate their independence from colonial powers. From July to September, public plazas in countries from Mexico to Honduras and ...

Honor and honors in colonial Spanish America / Mark A. Burkholder -- Honor, sexuality, and the colonial church / Geoffrey Spurling -- The negotiation of honor / Ann Twinam -- An urgent need to conceal ...

Editor's Note: Due to illness in the cast, the concerts have been rescheduled to Jan. 7 and 8. It’s Christmas Eve in Santiago, Chile, the shortest night of the year in a southern hemisphere summer. It ...

Outside a grand colonial cathedral in el Zócalo, the historic center of Mexico City, you can find men in feathered headdresses and beaded garments performing pre-Hispanic spiritual cleanses on ...

Revista Hispánica Moderna, Año 71, No. 2, Special Issue: History of The Book II (December 2018), pp. 179-196 (18 pages) This article examines the relationship between the history of reading and ...

Nicéa Quintino Amauro always knew who she was. She was born in Campinas, the last city in Brazil to prohibit slavery in 1888. She grew up in a Black neighbourhood, with a Black family. And a lot of ...