Past Updates
September 2020
Brazilian Historiography in the 20th Century (Thiago Lima Nicodemo, Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira, Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos)
LGBTQ History and Movements in Brazil (James N. Green)
Mexico's Chinaco Guerrillas During the French Intervention (E. Mark Moreno)
Shining Path (Miguel La Serna)
The Drug Wars in Colombia (Lina Britto)
August 2020
Brazil and World War II (Frank D. McCann)
Brazilian Popular Music during the First Half of the 20th Century (Carlos Sandroni)
History of Science and Technology in 20th-Century Brazil (Olival Freire Junior)
The Sertão and its Representations (Nísia Trindade Lima, Tamara Rangel Vieira)
The Revolt of the Enteados and Tailors in Bahia, 1798 (Patrícia Valim)
The Sabinada Rebellion (Monica Duarte Dantas, Roberto Saba)
Toward a History of Carnival (Martha Abreu, Eric Brasil)
July 2020
Brazil in the First World War (Stefan Rinke)
Brazilian Telenovelas and Modernity (Mônica Almeida Kornis)
Consumerism and Advertising in 20th-Century Brazil (Maria Claudia Bonadio)
Digital Resources: Chile’s Centro de Investigación y Documentación (CIDOC) and Anti-Communism in the 1964 Elections (Andrea Botto Stuven)
Digital Resources: Opening the Archives' Digital Collection on the History of US-Brazilian Relations (James N. Green)
Drought and Public Policy in Northeast Brazil (Eve Buckley)
Palmares and Zumbi: Quilombo Resistance to Colonial Slavery (Luiz Geraldo Silva)
Popular Music and the Growth of Brazilian Culture Industries since 1945 (K. E. Goldschmitt, Eduardo Vicente)
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and his Raízes do Brasil: Myths and Identities in Brazilian Culture (Pedro Meira Monteiro)
Slavery and International Relations in 19th-Century Brazil (Keila Grinberg)
The Abolition of the African Slave Trade in Brazil (Jaime Rodrigues)
The Portuguese Crown’s Policies toward the Indians in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Patricia Alves-Melo)
June 2020
Digital Resources: Latin American Food and Food History (Rebekah E. Pite, Ana Ramirez Luhrs)
Digital Resources: Latin American Travelogues Digital Collection at Brown University (James N. Green)
Digital Resources: Multepal, Mesoamerican Studies, and the Popol Wuj (Allison Margaret Bigelow, Rafael C. Alvarado)
Digital Resources: The Humanizing Deportation Archive (Robert Irwin)
Literary and Cultural Magazines in Brazil in the First Half of 20th-Century (Tania Regina de Luca)
The African Presence in Central American History (Robinson Herrera)
The Dutch in Brazil, 1624–1654 (Bruno Miranda)
May 2020
Brazil and the AIDS Crisis (Richard Parker)
Colombia and the Legal-Cultural Negotiation of Racial Categories (Joanne Rappaport)
Digital Resources: Opening the Archives' Digital Collection on the History of US-Brazilian Relations (James N. Green)
Dutch-Indigenous Relations in the Atlantic World (Mark Meuwese)
Neoliberalism in Chile (Alison J. Bruey)
Radical Right Ideologies and Movements in Brazil (João Fábio Bertonha)
Scribal Culture, Indigenous Modes, and Nahuatl-Language Sources from the 16th to 18th Centuries (Celso Mendoza)
The Cabanagem in Pará, 1835–1840 (Mark Harris)
Traders in Colonial Brazil: Origins, Strategies, and Networks (George Felix Cabral de Souza)
April 2020
Baseball in Mexico City during the Porfiriato, 1882–1910 (Miguel Ángel Esparza Ontiveros)
Digital Resources: HGIS de las Indias (Werner Stangl)
Digital Resources: Social Media, Gender, and the Electronic Music Scene in São Paulo (Beatriz Polivanov)
Digital Resources: The Digital Library of Ibero-American Heritage (Silvia E. Gutiérrez De la Torre, Miguel D. Cuadros-Sánchez)
El Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática: A History of Innovation Rooted in Tradition (J. Humberto Urquiza García)
Huichol Culture in Mexico, 1910–2019 (Michele McArdle Stephens)
The Moche (Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Karla Paola Patroni Castillo)
March 2020
Alberto Santos-Dumont and Brazilian Aviation (Felipe Fernandes Cruz)
Carmen Miranda: Race, Gender, and Camp Culture (Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez)
Central America Under Liberal Rule, 1870–1929 (Carlos Gregorio López Bernal)
Cesar Moscoso Carrasco and Malaria Eradication in Bolivia (Nicole L. Pacino)
Digital Resources: The Study of Brazilian History (Álvaro Pereira do Nascimento)
Gilberto Freyre and the Politics of Culture, 1930–1980 (Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke)
Interpretations of Underdevelopment in Brazil (Carlos Brandão, Hipólita Siqueira)
Le Musée d’Art E Pluribus Unum: An Urban Arts Movement in Haiti (Katherine Smith)
The Concheros Dance in Mexico City (Susanna Rostas)
The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) (Marco Estrada Saavedra)
February 2020
Brazil on the International Stage (David Mares)
Brazilian Cinema and Moviegoing (Rielle Navitski)
Brazilian Historiography in the 19th Century (Thiago Lima Nicodemo, Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos, Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira)
Coffee and the Formation of Modern Brazil, 1860–1914 (Rafael de Bivar Marquese)
Rural Social Movements in Brazil in the Second Half of the 20th Century: From the Peasant Leagues to the Landless Workers Movement (Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros)
January 2020
Africans in Brazil and Afro-Brazilian Religion and Culture (Luis Nicolau Parés)
Banana Industry in Central America (Kevin Coleman)
Chile: A Center of Global Astronomy, 1850–2019 (Bárbara K. Silva)
Ecclesiastical Geography of Colonial Brazil (Evergton Sales Souza)
December 2019
Environmental Change and Mobilization in Brazil (Regina Horta Duarte)
Pan-Mexicanism through Radio, 1936–1942 (Priscila Pilatowsky)
Saint Óscar Romero, Liberation Theology, and Human Rights in El Salvador (Michael Cangemi)
The Economic Structures of Slavery in Colonial Brazil (Leonardo Marques)
November 2019
Digital Resources: Ricardo Flores Magón Archive (Jacinto Barrera Bassols, Verónica Buitrón Escamilla)
Pentecostalism in Brazil (R. Andrew Chesnut, Kate Kingsbury)
Political Participation of Women in Chile through Eva Magazine, 1970–1973 (María Stella Toro)
Territory, Economy, and Labor in the Colonial North (Rafael Chambouleyron)
October 2019
A Feminist History of Violence against Women and the LGBTQIA+ Community in Chile, 1964–2018 (Hillary Hiner)
African American Boxer Billy Clarke in Modernizing Guatemala (Alvis E. Dunn)
Brazilian Universities and Politics in the 20th Century (Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta)
Cartography in the Administration of Portuguese America from the 16th to 18th Centuries (Júnia Ferreira Furtado)
Pardos, Free Blacks, and Slave Rebellions in Venezuela during the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions (Cristina Soriano)
The Abolition of Brazilian Slavery, 1864–1888 (Ricardo Salles)
The Brazilian Economy in the 20th Century (Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna)
Tiçiyotl and Titiçih: Late Postclassic and Early Colonial Nahua Healing, Diagnosis, and Prognosis (Edward Polanco)
September 2019
Agustín Lorenzo: Beloved Bandit of History and Folklore (Liliana Toledo Guzmán)
Artistic Vanguards in Brazil, 1917–1967 (Gênese Andrade)
Barcelona Business Interests and the Atlantic World (Yolanda Blasco-Martel, Jose Miguel Sanjuan Marroquin)
Colonial Elites: Planters and Land Nobility in 17th- and 18th-Century Brazil (João Fragoso, Thiago Krause)
Digital Resources: Modern Slavery and the Slave Trade in Latin America (Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez)
Indigenous Men in the Argentine Military (Ana Vivaldi)
Maps, Power, and the Pacification of La Araucanía-Chile, 1850–1900 (Pablo Azócar Fernández, Zenobio Saldivia Maldonado)
Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom in 16th-Century Santo Domingo (Richard Lee Turits)
August 2019
Arabic-speaking Migrants in 19th- and 20th-Century Latin America (Lily Pearl Balloffet)
Cancer Control and Prevention in Argentina (Yolanda Eraso)
Digital Resources: Malvinas/30, an Interactive Documentary on the South Atlantic Conflict (Alvaro Liuzzi, Tomás Bergero Trpin)
Digital Resources: Mesolore, a History, 1995–2015 (Liza Bakewell, Byron Ellsworth Hamann)
Francisco de Miranda (Andrey Iserov)
Korean Popular Culture in Argentina (Grit Kirstin Koeltzsch)
Publishing Houses and the 'Discovery' of Brazil, 1930–1950 (Gabriela Pellegrino Soares)
Sugar and the Formation of Colonial Brazil (Vera Lucia Amaral Ferlini)
July 2019
Digital Resource: Conflict Textiles (Elsie Doolan)
Digital Resources: Christianity in New Spain (Mexico) (Kristian J. Fabian, David T. Orique)
Digital Resources: Colonial Nahuatl in Central America (Sergio Romero)
National History Museum, Chapultepec Castle (Salvador Rueda Smithers)
St. Barthélemy and the Atlantic World (Ale Pålsson)
The Festival de Rock y Ruedas in Avándaro, 1971 (Juan Alberto Salazar Rebolledo)
The History of the São Paulo Biennales (Thiago Gil)
The New Philology and the New History of Religion in New Spain (Mark Christensen)
June 2019
Black Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods: Participatory Christianity in New Spain's Mining Towns (Nicole von Germeten)
Cartography and European Expansion and Consolidation in Colonial Spanish America, 1500–1700 (Carla Lois)
Digital Resources: Basques in Latin America (Oscar Álvarez-Gila)
Digital Resources: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (David Eltis), summary
Favelas and Politics in Brazil, 1890–1960 (Brodwyn Fischer)
Psychiatry and Insanity in Mexico, 1876–1968 (Andrés Ríos Molina)
The Meaning of Color and Race in Portuguese America, 1640–1750 (Ronald Raminelli)
The Murder of the Mirabal Sisters in the Dominican Republic (Eric Paul Roorda)
US and the Cold War in Latin America (Thomas C. Field Jr.)
May 2019
Coca and Cocaine in Latin American History (Paul Gootenberg)
Digital Resources: Latin America in Gallica (Nathalie Dessens)
Digital Resources: The H-LatAm Listserv (John Schwaller)
FARC, Shining Path, and Guerillas in Latin America (Marc Becker)
Health Care Policy in Argentina (Giuseppe M. Messina)
Hollywood and Disney in Mid-20th-Century Inter-American Relations (Fernando Purcell, Camila Gatica)
Housing in the Latin American City, 1900–1976 (David Yee)
Labor and Resistance to the International Monetary Fund (Dustin Walcher)
Masculinities, Consumption, and Domesticity during the Perón Era (Natalia Milanesio)
Pre-Columbian Earth Builders of the Amazon (Jonas Gregorio de Souza)
Severo Martínez Peláez and Latin American Historiography (Coralia Gutiérrez Álvarez)
Taxation, Money, Credit, and the Consolidation of Oligarchic Rule in El Salvador, 1848–1931 (Antonio Acosta)
The Central American Coffee Commodity Chain (Mario Samper Kutschbach)
The History of Emotions in Colonial Latin America (Jacqueline Holler)
April 2019
Brazilian Wildlife: History, Threats, and Opportunities (José Luiz de Andrade Franco, José Augusto Drummond)
Digital Resources: Digital Peru (José Ragas)
Documenting the Human Cost of Guatemala's Civil War (Trudy Mercadal)
Foreign Travelers’ Accounts and Fanny Calderón de la Barca’s Life in Mexico (Lourdes Parra Lazcano)
French Intellectuals and Cultural Diplomacy in Brazil, 1934–1943 (Hugo Rogelio Suppo)
Health, Malaria Campaigns, and Development in Brazil (Gilberto Hochman)
Indigenous Portraits and Casta Paintings in the Spanish Americas (Dana Leibsohn, Meha Priyadarshini)
Mexico and the New Neoliberalism (Kathleen C. Schwartzman)
Populism across the Andes during the 20th and Early 21st Centuries (Iñigo García-Bryce)
Sexuality and Black Magic in Brazil (Kelly E. Hayes)
The Brazilian Economy during the Colonial Period (José Jobson Arruda)
The Colonial Amazon (Rafael Chambouleyron, Pablo Ibáñez-Bonillo)
The Guaraní Missions in the Jesuit Province of Paraguay, 1609–1800 (Eduardo Neumann)
The Politics and Culture of Medicine and Disease in Central America (David Carey Jr.)
Transatlantic Family-Making: Jamaica and Great Britain (Daniel Livesay)
Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil (Carole A. Myscofski)
March 2019
Anticommunism in 20th-Century Chile: From the “Social Question” to the Military Dictatorship (Marcelo Casals)
Digital Resources: DocuMedia Projects in Argentina (Silvana Comba, Edgardo Toledo, Anahí Lovato, Fernando Irigaray)
Digital Resources: Guaman Poma's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (Rolena Adorno)
Digital Resources: Online Finding Aid for the Archivo General de Centro América (Rosemary A. Joyce, Russell N. Sheptak)
Digital Resources: The Sandino Rebellion Digital Historical Archive, Nicaragua, 1927–1934 (Michael J. Schroeder)
Mexican Comic Books and NAFTA (Bruce Campbell)
National Parks in Colombia (Claudia Leal)
Nineteenth-Century Foreign Travelers to Central America (Arturo Taracena Arriola)
Postrevolutionary Poster Art and Graphic Design in Cuba (Claudio Sotolongo)
Small Islands in a Geopolitically Unstable Caribbean World (Ernesto Bassi)
The 1964 Military Coup in Brazil (João Roberto Martins Filho)
The Collor Presidency from the Electoral Campaign to the Impeachment (Brasilio Sallum Jr.)
The Federal Republic of Central America, 1824–1840 (Luis Pedro Taracena Arriola)
US Interventions and Occupations in Latin America (Alan McPherson)
February 2019
Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial Art (Matthias Röhrig Assunção)
Colonial Elites: Planters and Land Nobility in 17th- and 18th-Century Brazil (João Fragoso, Thiago Krause), summary
Current Perspectives in the Precolonial Archaeology of Puerto Rico (Reniel Rodríguez Ramos)
Digital Resources: FamilySearch (Rebecca Horn)
Dutch Atlantic (Evan Haefeli)
Luís Carlos Prestes: A Revolutionary between Two Worlds (Daniel Aarão Reis)
Marxist Thought in Brazil (Bernardo Ricupero)
Mexico's Early Cookbooks (Maite Gomez-Rejón)
The Wreck of the USS Memphis in the Dominican Republic (Eric Paul Roorda)
Ubre Blanca and the Politics of Milk in Socialist Cuba (Reinaldo Funes Monzote)
January 2019
Cuban Immigration to the United States (Eric Paul Roorda)
Indigenous Intellectuals in Colonial Latin America (David Tavárez)
The Socio-Political History of Cacao Growing in the State of Bahia (Mary Ann Mahony)
November 2018
Digital Resources: Historicizing the Living Past in Latin America (Anne Pérotin-Dumon, Manuel Gárate)
Masculinities, Consumption, and Domesticity during the Perón Era (Natalia Milanesio), summary
October 2018
Cangaço and Cangaceiros: Rural Banditry in the Brazilian Northeast (Luiz Bernardo Pericás)
Child Labor in Brazil and Uruguay (Marcia Guedes Vieira)
Digital Resources: Chilean History (Danielle B. Barefoot)
Henrietta Yurchenco: Ethnomusicology Pioneer in Mexico and Guatemala (Yael Bitrán Goren)
Huguenots in the Atlantic (Bryan A. Banks)
Porfirian Social Practices and Etiquette (Diego Pulido Esteva)
Spanish Diplomacy in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions (Timothy Hawkins)
September 2018
Catholics, Evangelicals, and US Policy in Central America (Michael Cangemi)
Digital Resources: The Hijuelas Collection (Matthew Butler, David A. Bliss)
Ecological Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (Megan Raby), summary
Gabriel Vargas and La familia Burrón (Maira Mayola Benítez Carrillo)
Human Rights and the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 (Elaine Carey)
Korean Popular Culture in Argentina (Grit Kirstin Koeltzsch), summary
Mexico and the New Neoliberalism (Kathleen C. Schwartzman), summary
Oliveira Lima and The Oliveira Lima Library at the Catholic University of America (Nathalia Henrich)
August 2018
Agrarian Reform in Bolivia in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Carmen Soliz)
Black Associational Politics in 20th-Century Brazil (Petrônio Domingues)
Digital Resources: The José Guadalupe Posada Collection at the Ibero-American Institute (Ricarda Musser)
Indigenous Societies in Brazil Before the European Arrival (Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes)
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Liliana Toledo Guzmán)
Mexico and the Pacific (Edward R. Slack)
Mexico's Centennial Celebration of Independence in 1910 (Michael J. Gonzales)
Social Order and Mobility in 16th- and 17th-Century Central Mexico (Tatiana Seijas)
The Bracero Program, 1942–1964 (Juan R. García)
The Mexico City Metro and Its Riders (Amanda M. López)
The Motherland and the Welfare State in Mexico: Government Symbols, Programs, and Visions, 1943–1970 (Alicia Azuela de la Cueva)
The Secretary of War’s Historical Commission: Military Historians and the Cristeros (Julia Preciado)
Visions of the Nation in Imperial Brazil: Arts and Celebrations (Maria Ligia Coelho Prado)
July 2018
Convent and Family Property in New Spain (Rosalva Loreto López)
Digital Resources: En el Ojo del Huracán, Private Letters from the Caribbean to Spain (Werner Stangl)
Disease, Ecology, and the Environment in Colonial Mexico (Bradley Skopyk, Elinor G. K. Melville)
José Guadalupe Posada and Visual Culture in Porfirian Mexico (Robert M. Buffington, Jesus Osciel Salazar)
López Obrador in Democratic Mexico (Alejandro García Magos)
Manuel Gómez Morin and the Creation of the National Action Party (PAN) (Javier Garciadiego)
Mexico and the Outside World (Friedrich E. Schuler)
Mexico in World Expositions and Fairs (Susan Douglas)
Nature Conservation and Protection in Mexico (Emily Wakild)
Political Economy, Race, and National Identity in Central America, 1500-2000 (Dario A. Euraque)
Scandinavia in the Atlantic World (Klas Rönnbäck)
The Independence of New Spain and the Establishment of the Mexican Republic, 1808–1824 (Jaime E. Rodríguez O.)
The Spanish Caribbean, 1492-1550 (Ida Altman)
The Zoque Carnivals of Northwestern Chiapas, Mexico (Gillian E. Newell)
Travel and Transport in Mexico (J. Brian Freeman, Guillermo Guajardo Soto)
June 2018
Digital Resources: The Documented Border (Celeste González de Bustamante, Verónica Reyes-Escudero)
Gabriel García Moreno, Conservative President of Ecuador (Peter V. N. Henderson)
The Culture of a Multi-Ethnic Colony (Sonya Lipsett-Rivera)
The Economy during the Mexican Revolution (Mark Wasserman)
The Internal Provinces of the Northern Spanish Empire (Cecilia Sheridan-Prieto)
The Life, Myth, and Commemoration of Benito Juárez (Thomas Benjamin)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru (Jaymie Heilman)
May 2018
Animals in Latin American History (Germán Vergara)
Chiapas and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Marco Estrada-Saavedra)
Digital Resources: Power of Attorney, A Digital Spatial History of Indigenous Legal Culture in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico (Yanna Yannakakis)
Liberalism in the Spanish Atlantic (Roberto Breña)
Mexican Culture, 1920–1945 (Helen Delpar, Stephanie J. Smith)
Mexican Women Writers, 1960 to the Present (Sarah Anderson)
Porfirian Politics in Mexico, 1876–1911 (Paul Garner)
Revolutionary Land Reform and Its End in Mexico (Joseph U. Lenti)
State-Building and Roads in Postrevolutionary Chiapas and at the Turn of the 21st Century (Jonathan Otto)
The Reforma Period in Mexico (Paul Vanderwood, Robert Weis)
The Virgin of Guadalupe as an Iconic Image in Mexican Culture (Charlene Villaseñor Black)
War and Peace between Mexico and the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Josefina Zoraida Vázquez)
April 2018
Brazil – The Country of Football (Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda)
The Brazilian Military Regime, 1964–1985 (Marcos Napolitano)
The Incas of the Andes (Susan Elizabeth Ramirez)
The Public Sphere in Mexico since the Mid-20th Century (Vanessa Freije)
The United States and the 1964 Brazilian Military Coup (Matias Spektor)
March 2018
Alien Sightings and OVNI Culture in Argentina (David M. K. Sheinin)
Benito Juárez and Liberalism (Guy Thomson)
Catholics, Evangelicals, and U.S. Policy in Central America (Michael Cangemi), summary
Pedro Infante and the Mexican Imagination (Sal Acosta)
Revolutionary Influences on Genre Cinema in Mexico (Jennifer L. Jenkins)
The 1964 Military-Civilian Coup in Brazil (João Roberto Martins Filho), summary
The Autonomous Department of Press and Publicity (Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Publicidad) (Ana Laura de la Torre)
The Mexican Son, Past and Present (Raquel G. Paraíso)
The Mexico that Spain Encountered (Susan Schroeder)
February 2018
Chin Chun Chan: The Zarzuela as an Ethnic and Technological Farce (Jacqueline Avila)
Hispanic Constitutionalism and the Independence Process in the Kingdom of Guatemala, 1808-1823 (Xiomara Avendaño Rojas)
History of the Torre Latinoamericana (Sarah Beckhart)
Indigo in the Atlantic World (Adrianna Catena)
Jean Charlot and the Mexican Mural Renaissance (John Charlot)
Latin American Marxism and the Atlantic (Andrés Estefane, Luis Thielemann)
Livestock, Livelihood, and Agrarian Change in Andean Peru (Javier Puente)
Political Prefects: The Regional Political Bosses of Mexico (Romana Gloria Falcón Vega)
Rural Indians and Technological Innovation, From the Chinampas of Xochimilco and Beyond (Richard Conway)
The Book in the Iberian Atlantic, 1492–1824 (Eugenia Roldán Vera)
The Colonial Economy of New Spain (Jeremy Baskes)
The Cuban Embassy in Uruguay, 1959-1964 (Roberto García)
The French Intervention in Mexico and the Empire of Maximilian and Carlota (Luz María Hernández-Sáenz)
Women in Mexican Politics since 1953 (Sonia Hernández)
January 2018
Bourbon Reforms in Central America, 1700-1808 (Jorge González Alzate)
Carlos Salinas de Gortari and His Legacy (Stephen D. Morris)
Civilian Aviation in Mexico (Peter Soland)
Haitian Immigrants and Their Descendants Born in the Dominican Republic (Bridget Wooding)
Laura Méndez de Cuenca: Force for Mexican Modernity (Mílada Bazant)
Mexican Foreign Relations, 1910-1946 (Amelia M. Kiddle)
The Good Neighbor Policy (Max Paul Friedman)
The Politics and Culture of Medicine and Disease in Central America (David Carey Jr.), summary
The Politics and Culture of Medicine and Disease in Central America (David Carey Jr.), summary
December 2017
Music and Eastern Cuban Identity (Rebecca Bodenheimer)
Music and Folklore Research in the Departamento de Bellas Artes, 1926–1946 (Jessica Gottfried)
Parícutin: Volcano in a Cornfield (Claire Perrott)
The Spanish Caribbean, 1492-1550 (Ida Altman), summary
November 2017
Aztec Apocalypse, 1519–1521 (Ross Hassig)
Fernando Ortiz on Afro-Cuban Music (Robin Moore)
Latin America and Antarctica (Adrian Howkins)
Lombardo Toledano´s Struggles in the World of Labor (Daniela Spenser)
October 2017
#YoSoy132, Social Media, and Political Organization (Javier Contreras Alcantara)
Basques in the Atlantic World, 1450–1824 (Xabier Lamikiz)
Constitutionalism in the Hispanic World (Jaime E. Rodríguez O.)
Cultural Institutions of the Brazilian Empire (Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz)
Digital Resources: Gender and Latin American Independence (Catherine Davies)
Foreign Travelers in Mexico: Chronicles and Stories (James A. Garza)
Gender and Sexuality in Brazil since Independence (Sueann Caulfield, Cristiana Schettini)
Mexican Telenovelas (O. Hugo Benavides)
Mexico's First Decades of Independence (Christon I. Archer, Stephen B. Neufeld)
Oscar Lewis, Urban Poverty, and The Children of Sánchez (Joshua K. Salyers)
September 2017
Digital Resources: The State of Digital Research on the Visual Culture of Spanish America (Barbara E. Mundy, Dana Leibsohn)
Economic Integration in 19th- and 20th-Century Central America (Dora María Téllez)
Guano, Intensive Agriculture, and Environmental Change in Latin America and the Caribbean (Gregory T. Cushman)
History of Alternative Communication in Chile: Phases and Endeavors (Chiara Sáez, Jorge Iturriaga)
Japanese Immigration to Brazil (Mieko Nishida)
Lucha Libre (Stephen Allen)
The Caribbean Visual Palette (Patricia Mohammed)
The Mexican-American War (Irving W. Levinson)
Zoos in Latin America (Regina Horta Duarte)
August 2017
Digital Resources: Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art (María C. Gaztambide)
Digital Resources: The Wheelan Collection of Photographs of the Mexican Revolution (Anton DuPlessis)
Food in Contemporary Cuba (Hanna Garth)
Football and Sports Media in Chile, 1895–1962 (Pedro Acuña)
Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Cuban Children to the United States, 1960–1962 (Anita Casavantes Bradford)
Oscar Arias and the Treaty of Esquipulas (Philip Travis)
Rediscovering the Aztecs and Mayas: Field Exploration, Archaeological Exhibits, and National Museums (Kevin M. Gosner)
Technology in 19th-Century Mexico (Edward Beatty)
Women, Politics, and Media in Uruguay, 1900–1950 (Christine Ehrick)
July 2017
Alfred Métraux: Between Ethnography and Applied Knowledge (Rodrigo Bulamah)
Architecture in Mexico City, 1940–1980 (Kathryn E. O’Rourke)
Caste Wars in Yucatán (Michele McArdle Stephens)
Cultural Policies of the Chávez Government (Sujatha Fernandes)
Digital Resources: The League of Nations and Latin America (Fabián Herrera León)
Environmental History of Coffee in Latin America (Stuart McCook)
Everyday Life in Argentina in the 1960s (Isabella Cosse)
Guerrilla Movements and Armed Struggle in Cold War Mexico (Alexander Aviña)
Humboldt in Mexico, 1803–1804 (Myron Echenberg)
Railroads and the Mexican Imagination during the Porfiriato and Revolution (Michael Matthews)
Ricardo Flores Magón and the Ongoing Revolution (Kevan Antonio Aguilar)
The Mexican Muralists and Frida Kahlo (Leonard Folgarait)
Tourism and Connoisseurship in the Collection Histories of Haitian Art in the United States (Peter Haffner)
June 2017
Canary Island Immigration to the Hispanic Caribbean (Manuel Hernández González)
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Democratization of Mexican Politics (Kathleen Bruhn)
La Reina de la Raza: The Making of the India Bonita (Natasha S. Varner)
Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Public Works (Sonia Robles)
The Alphabetic Colonization of Amerindian Oral Ecologies in Early Brazil (Diogo de Carvalho Cabral)
The Paraguayan War and Brazilian National Identity (Wilma Peres Costa)
April 2017
Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua (Elizabeth A. Henson)
Lázaro Cárdenas and Cardenismo (Stephanie Mitchell)
Maternal Death in Mexico (Paola Sesia)
The Spanish Language in Latin America since Independence (Ilan Stavans)
March 2017
Charlatans and Medicine in 19th-Century Latin America (Irina Podgorny)
Drought and the Origins of the Mexican Revolution (Mikael D. Wolfe)
Evo Morales and Bolivian Politics in the 20th and 21st Centuries (John Crabtree)
Juliet Barrett Rublee and Flame of Mexico (Elissa Rashkin, Isabel Arredondo)
Latin America in World War I (Friedrich E. Schuler)
Mercury and Silver Mining in the Colonial Atlantic (Kendall Brown)
Oil in the Andes (Stephen Cote)
Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil (Laura de Mello e Souza)
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil (Ted Goertzel)
The Galíndez Case in the Dominican Republic (Elizabeth Manley)
The Transatlantic Financial Crisis of 1837 (Stephen W. Campbell)
February 2017
Digital Resources: Digital Mesoamerica (Stephanie Wood)
Digital Resources: The Bracero History Archive (Sharon Leon)
Domestic Service and Labor Laws in Chile and Argentina, 1931–1956 (Inés Pérez, Elizabeth Hutchison)
Legal Writing, Civil Litigation, and Agents in the 18th-Century Spanish Imperial World (Bianca Premo)
The Extraordinary Career of Juana C. Romero, Cacica of Tehuantepec (Francie Chassen-López)
January 2017
Folk Festivals, Community Development, and the Sugar Industry Crisis in Tucumán, Argentina, 1966–1973 (Oscar Chamosa)
December 2016
Biography of a Colonial Document (Sylvia Sellers-García)
Digital Resources: Audiovisual Social Research Laboratory (LAIS) (Felipe Morales Leal, Lourdes Roca)
Digital Resources: FAMSI.org and the Beginnings of Digital Scholarship for the Ancient Americas (Victoria Lyall)
Eugenics in Latin America (Alexandra Minna Stern)
Uruguayan Cinema in the 20th Century (Daniel Alex Richter)
November 2016
Catholicism in Mexico, 1910 to the Present (Matthew Butler)
Food Science, Race, and the Nation in Colombia (Stefan Pohl-Valero)
Indigenous Mobilizations and the Mexican Government during the 20th Century (María L. O. Muñoz)
September 2016
Brazil and the Paraguayan War: Conflicts and Interests (Francisco Doratioto)
Central America's Caribbean Coast: Politics and Ethnicity (Robert Sierakowski)
Digital Resources: Getty Research Institute Digital Exhibitions and Portals for Mexico (Jonathan Saxon)
Digital Resources: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas at Austin (Kent Norsworthy)
Digital Resources: Using Facebook to Foster International Conversations about Mexican History (Jason Dormady)
Espiritismo and Urban Planning in Cuba: Envisioning Regeneration in Havana and Oriente after 1898 (Reinaldo L. Román)
Exile in 19th-Century Haiti (Matthew J. Smith)
Neoliberalism and Free Trade in Latin America (Robert Jordan)
Sheep Sovereignties: The Colonization of Malvinas/Falklands, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego, 1830–1920 (Alberto Harambour-Ross)
The Conquests of Peru (Christopher Heaney)
Translating José María Heredia (Frederick Luciani)
August 2016
Border Wars in South America during the 19th Century (Peter V. N. Henderson)
Commodities and Consumption in "Golden Age" Argentina (Eduardo Elena)
Conflicts between Caribbean Basin Dictators and Democracies, 1944–1959 (Aaron Coy Moulton)
Honor Ideology, Dueling Culture, and Judicial Lies in 1920s Uruguay (David S. Parker)
Latin America and the League of Nations (Fabián Herrera León)
Oil and Environment in Mexico (Myrna Santiago)
Oil in the Andes (Stephen Cote), summary
Operation Pedro Pan (Anita Casavantes Bradford), summary
Popular Religion, Death, and Nation in Paraguay (Michael Kenneth Huner)
Popular Revolts in the Empire of Brazil (Monica Duarte Dantas)
Public Health in Mexico, 1870–1943 (Claudia Agostoni)
Rock Nacional in Argentina during the Dictatorship (Timothy Wilson, Mara Favoretto)
Smallpox Eradication in Mexico (Claudia Agostoni)
The Association of Communitarian Health Services (ASECSA) and the Role of Religion and Health in Central America (Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens)
The Brazilian Military Regime, 1964–1985 (Marcos Napolitano), summary
The Creole Circus and Popular Entertainment in 19th Century Argentina and Uruguay (William G. Acree Jr.)
The Dominican Colmado, from Santo Domingo to New York (Christian Krohn-Hansen)
The Drug Trade in Mexico (Aileen Teague)
The Mexico-United States War (Irving W. Levinson), summary
The Public Sphere and Liberalism in Mexico: From the Mid-19th Century to the 1930s (Pablo A. Piccato)
The Spanish Language in Latin America since Independence (Ilan Stavans), summary
The Women of Guadalajara in Mexico's History (María Teresa Fernández Aceves)
July 2016
Brazilian Independence: Change and Continuity (João Paulo Pimenta)
Disney Health Films in Mexico (María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo)
Free Afro-Brazilians in 19th-Century Brazil (Richard Graham)
General Victoriano Huerta and the Mexican Revolution (Friedrich E. Schuler)
Intellectuals and the Nation in Early 20th-Century Brazil (Sergio Miceli)
U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America in the 19th Century (Brian Loveman)
Urbanization and Environment in Mexico since 1521 (Matthew Vitz)
Vatican Foreign Relations with Latin America since Independence (Stephen J. C. Andes)
June 2016
José Ingenieros, El Hombre Mediocre, and Social Integration in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Argentina (Mariano Ben Plotkin)
Labor and the Environment in Latin America (Aviva Chomsky)
Pulque: A Pre-Columbian Alcoholic Beverage of Mexico (David Yetman)
Relations between the Andes and the Upper Amazon (Stefano Varese)
The Cádiz Constitution in the Atlantic World (Natalia Sobrevilla Perea)
The Colonial Mosaic of Indigenous New Spain, 1519–1821 (Susan Kellogg)
The History and Visual Culture of Mexico City’s Xochimilco Potable Water System during the Porfiriato (Jeffrey M. Banister, Stacie G. Widdifield)
May 2016
Architecture in Mexico City, 1940–1980 (Kathryn E. O’Rourke), summary
Chile and the Pacific World (Edward D. Melillo)
Competing Spanish and Indigenous Jurisdictions in Early Colonial Lima (Karen B. Graubart)
Digital Resources: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) (Orchid Mazurkiewicz)
Immigration and National Identity in Latin America, 1870–1930 (Michael Goebel)
Music in Mexico City, 1880–1960 (Ricardo Pérez Montfort)
Rediscovering the Aztecs and Mayas: Field Exploration, Archaeological Exhibits, and National Museums (Kevin Gosner), summary
The Conjunction of the Lettered City and the Lettered Countryside in 19th-Century Mexico (William E. French)
The Saamaka Maroons of Suriname (Richard Price, Sally Price), summary
Water and Environmental Change in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Sterling Evans)
Working Women in the Mexican Revolution (Susie S. Porter)
April 2016
Atoms for Peace in Latin America (Gisela Mateos, Edna Suárez-Díaz)
Cuba's Second Golden Age of Popular Music, 1989–2005 (Raúl Fernandez, Anita Casavantes Bradford) (summary)
Eugenics in Latin America (Alexandra Minna Stern) (summary)
Latin American Environmental History (Christopher R. Boyer)
Men and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico (Robert M. Buffington)
Mexican Bawds: Women and Commercial Sex in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Nicole von Germeten)
Population Studies and Genetics in Mexico during the Cold War (Ana Barahona) (summary)
Religion and Politics in 20th-Century Central America (Virginia Garrard-Burnett)
Sacrilege, Profanation, and the Appropriation of Sacred Power in New Spain (Luis R. Corteguera)
The 1965 Agrarian Revolt in Madera, Chihuahua (Elizabeth A. Henson) (summary)
The Caribbean Visual Palette (Patricia Mohammed) (summary)
The Politics of Cultural Production during the Vargas Era, 1930–1945 (Daryle Williams)
March 2016
Alliance for Progress (Stephen G. Rabe)
Indigenismo (Estelle Tarica)
Mexican Politics, Economy, and Society, 1946–1982 (Ryan Alexander)
Mexico in Spain’s Oceanic Empire, 1519–1821 (Christoph Rosenmüller)
Mountain Communities and Their Changing Landscapes in 19th-Century Mexico (Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor)
Paraguayan Politics, Economics, and Cultural Identity, 1870–1936 (Bridget María Chesterton)
Sugar Cane and Agricultural Transformations in Cuba (Reinaldo Funes Monzote)
Taste, Smell, and Flavor in Mexico (Jeffrey M. Pilcher)
The Túpac Amaru and Katarista Rebellions (Sergio E. Serulnikov)
Women, Politics, and Media in Uruguay (Christine Ehrick) (summary)
February 2016
The Middle Class in Argentina, Ezequiel Adamovsky
January 2016
Biography of a Colonial Document (Sylvia Sellers-García) summary
Central America's Caribbean Coast: Politics and Ethnicity (Robert Sierakowski) summary
Collecting Picture Postcards of South America (Hinnerk Onken)
Cultural Policies of the Chávez Government (Sujatha Fernandes) summary
Digital Resources: Audiovisual Social Research Laboratory (Felipe Morales Leal, Lourdes Roca) summary
Digital Resources: The Documented Border Project (Celeste González de Bustamante, Verónica Reyes-Escudero) summary
General Victoriano Huerta and the Mexican Revolution (Friedrich Schuler) summary
The Public Sphere and Liberalism in Mexico: From the Mid-19th Century to the 1930s (Pablo A. Piccato) summary
December 2015
Maternal Death in Mexico (Paola Sesia) summary
Porfirian Politics (Paul Garner) summary
The Social Construction of the Photographic Portrait in 19th-Century Rio de la Plata (Andrea Cuarterolo)
November 2015
Family Planning and Reproductive Rights in Chile (Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney)
Salvador Allende (Steven S. Volk)
October 2015
Jean Charlot and the Mexican Mural Renaissance (John Charlot) summary
Popular Religion, Death, and Nation in Paraguay (Michael Kenneth Huner) summary
Quechua (Alan Durston)
The Galíndez Case in the Dominican Republic (Elizabeth Manley) summary
Vatican Foreign Relations with Latin America since Independence (Stephen J. C. Andes) summary
Visions of the Nation in Imperial Brazil: Arts and Celebrations (Maria Ligia Coelho Prado) summary
September 2015
Agricultural Transformations in Sugarcane and Labor in Brazil (Thomas D. Rogers)
Early Modern Afro-Caribbean Healers (Pablo F. Gómez)
Exile in 19th-Century Haiti (Matthew J. Smith) summary
José Vasconcelos, National Education, and Revolutionary Culture in Mexico (William Beezley) summary
Lucas Alamán and 19th-Century Monarchism in Mexico (Miguel Soto)
Maternal Health in the Andes (Nicole L. Pacino)
Political Historietas and Graphic Humor in Argentina (Laura Vazquez) summary
Social Organization of Colonial Mexico (Tatiana Seijas) summary
The Association of Communitarian Health Services and the Role of Religion and Health in Central America (Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens) summary
The History and Science of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean (Sherry Johnson)
The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1946 (Jürgen Buchenau)
The Pizarro Clan (Susan Elizabeth Ramirez)
The Promise and Peril of Gold Mining on Spanish and Portuguese Imperial Frontiers (Heidi V. Scott) summary
The Three Faces of the Family, 1872–Present (Elena Jackson Albarrán)
August 2015
Paraguayan National Identity (Peter Lambert)
Wars of Spanish-American Independence (Natalia Sobrevilla Perea)
July 2015
Food Science, Race, and the Nation in Colombia (Stefan Pohl-Valero) summary
Machu Picchu (Willie Hiatt)
Photography and Cinema in 20th-Century Mexico (John Mraz)
The Environmental Crisis in Latin America (Guillermo Castro H.)
June 2015
Conflicts between Caribbean Basin Dictators and Democracies, 1944–1959 (Aaron Coy Moulton) summary
May 2015
Digital Resources: Mesolore (Liza Bakewell, Byron Hamann) summary
Digital Resources: The H-LatAm Listserv Archives (John Schwaller) summary
Everyday Life in Argentina in the 1960s (Isabella Cosse) summary
Free Afro-Brazilians in 19th-Century Brazil (Richard Graham) summary
Potosí Mines (Kris Lane)
The Book in the Iberian Atlantic, 1492–1824 (Eugenia Roldán Vera) summary
April 2015
Alcohol in the Atlantic (David Carey Jr.)
Democratizing Mexican Politics, 1982–2012 (Roderic Ai Camp)
Health, Malaria Campaigns, and Development in Brazil (Gilberto Hochman) summary
Ordinary Opinions of Everyday Mexicans: Polling from the 1940s–2012 (Roderic Ai Camp)
Political Violence and the Left in Latin America, 1967–1979 (Aldo Marchesi)
Runaway Slave Colonies in the Atlantic World (Tim Lockley)
Santa Anna and His Legacy (Will Fowler)
March 2015
Digital Resources: The Wheelan Collection of Photographs of the Mexican Revolution (Anton DuPlessis) summary
February 2015
Domestic Service and Labor Laws in Chile and Argentina, 1931–1956 (Inés Pérez, Elizabeth Hutchison) summary
Social Movements in Late 20th-Century Ecuador and Bolivia (Marc Becker) summary
U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America in the 19th Century (Brian Loveman) summary
December 2014
Digital Resources: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University (Anne E. Peterson, Cindy Boeke) summary
Digital Resources: Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (Joanne Harwood, Valerie Fraser, Sarah J. Demelo) summary
Digital Resources: Laboratory of Oral History and Image (LABHOI-UFF), Brazil (Ana Maria Mauad) summary
Digital Resources: Mexican Digital Library, BDMx (Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts) (Andrea Martínez Baracs) summary
Digital Resources: The Handbook of Latin American Studies (Katherine D. McCann, Tracy North) summary
Digital Resources: The Sandino Rebellion Digital Historical Archive, Nicaragua (Michael Schroeder) summary
October 2014
Digital Research on the Visual Culture of Spanish America (Barbara E. Mundy, Dana Leibsohn) summary
Digital Resources: Digital Mesoamerica (Stephanie Wood) summary
Digital Resources: Historicizing the Living Past in Latin America (Anne Pérotin-Dumon, Manuel Gárate) summary
REFLORA: A Virtual Way to Share Information about Brazilian Plants (Daniela Zappi, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, E. Nic Lughadha) summary
September 2014
Economic Integration in 19th- and 20th-Century Central America (Dora María Téllez) summary
Latin America and the League of Nations (Fabián Herrera León) summary
Yellow Fever in the Caribbean (Mariola Espinosa) summary
August 2014
Catholicism in Mexico, 1910 to the Present (Matthew Butler) summary
Digital Projects: Mexican Archives and University Libraries (Linda Arnold) summary
Digital Resources: 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art (María C. Gaztambide) summary
Digital Resources: An Ethnographic Study of Social Media and Brazilian E-Music Scenes, 2008–2012 (Beatriz Polivanov) summary
Digital Resources: Gender and Latin American Independence (Catherine Davies) summary