Past Updates

August 2024

Atlantic Forest Landscapes: Nature-Cultures Through Space and Time (Alexandro Solórzano, Lucas Brasil, Vicente Fernandez, Thomaz Amadeo, Maria Amadeo, Rogério Ribeiro de Oliveira)
The Central American Guerrilla Movements (Dirk Kruijt), forthcoming Oct–Dec 2024
Theoretical Perspectives on Music as Black History in Latin America (Michael Iyanaga, Michael Birenbaum Quintero)

 

July 2024

Animation in Latin America (Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar)
United States and Chile, 1973–1990 (Pablo Rubio Apiolaza), revised

 

June 2024

 

May 2024

 

April 2024

 

March 2024

Latin American Feminisms (Jocelyn Olcott)
Palm Oil and Afro-Brazilian Cultures (Case Watkins), revised

 

February 2024

 

January 2024

Islam in Latin America (Silvia Montenegro)
Peyote (Alexander Dawson), revised

 

December 2023

The Caribbean Frontier During World War II (Jose L. Bolívar Fresneda)

 

November 2023

Indigenous Slavery in the Atlantic (Miller Shores Wright)
Nueva Cádiz de Cubagua and the Pearl Fisheries of the Caribbean (Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Oliver Antczak), revised
The Caribbean Frontier During World War II (Jose L. Bolívar Fresneda)

 

October 2023

 

September 2023

Chilean-Chinese Relations (Maria Montt Strabucchi), revised
 

August 2023

Potatoes (Rebecca Earle)
 

July 2023

Muslims in Brazil (Omri Elmaleh)
 

May 2023

 

April 2023

Public Health in Uruguay, 1830–1940s (Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raquel Pollero)
The Putumayo Atrocities (Angus Mitchell)
 

February 2023

 

January 2023

 

December 2022

The CIA in Guatemala (Stephen M. Streeter)
 

November 2022

American Evangelicals in Guatemala (Lauren Frances Turek)
 

October 2022

Digital Resources: Personal Archives and Historical Writing About Brazil (Pedro Telles da Silveira, Thiago Lima Nicodemo)
Disability in Guatemala (Heather Vrana)
Japanese in Peru (Patricia Palma, Pedro Iacobelli)
 

September 2022

 

August 2022

 

July 2022

 

June 2022

Pisco and Pisco Sour (Guillermo L. Toro-Lira)
The Chinese in Peru (Patricia Palma)
 

May 2022

COVID-19 and Digital Archives in Latin America (Ian Kisil Marino, Thiago Lima Nicodemo)
 

April 2022

 

March 2022

 

February 2022

Digital Resources: Digital Informal Archives in Contemporary Brazil (Ian Kisil Marino, Pedro Telles da Silveira, Thiago Lima Nicodemo)
The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 (Eugenia Allier-Montaño)
 

January 2022

Uruguayan Theater in Exile (Luciana Scaraffuni)
 

December 2021

The Amistad Saga: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue (Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez, Gibril R. Cole, Benjamin N. Lawrance)
 

November 2021

 

October 2021

 

September 2021

Samba Schools (Carlos Sandroni, Felipe Barros)
The Lienzo de Tlaxcala and the Indian Conquistadors (Federico Navarrete Linares, Margarita Cossich Vielman, Antonio Jaramillo Arango)
Women, Drugs, and Violence in Sinaloa (Elaine Carey, Patricia Figueroa)
 

August 2021

Digital Resources: Brazilian Legal History (Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Maria Guiomar da C. Frota)
Galápagos Islands (Peter V. N. Henderson)
The Coca Leaf in Bolivian History (Susan Brewer-Osorio)
Violence in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Gema Kloppe-Santamaría)
 

June 2021

War of Canudos (Adriana Michele Campos Johnson)
 

May 2021

Digital Resources: Intellectuals in Brazil (Eliana Regina de Freitas Dutra, Renato Pinto Venancio)
Panama Hats are Made in Ecuador (Peter V. N. Henderson)
 

April 2021

Amazon Development (Antoine Acker)
Exiles in Mexico (Pablo Yankelevich)
SocioCultural History of Rio de Janeiro (Paulo Cruz Terra, Marcelo de Souza Magalhães)

March 2021

Alcohol and Drugs in Brazil (Henrique S. Carneiro)
Brazilian Regionalism (Barbara Weinstein)
Brazilian Slave Revolts (Ricardo Figueiredo Pirola)

February 2021

An Empire in the Tropics, 1808-1821: A Historiographical Review (Maria Fernanda Baptista Bicalho, Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto)

January 2021

British Business on the West Coast of South America (Robert G. Greenhill, Rory M. Miller)
Race, Science, and Social Thought in 20th-Century Brazil (Marcos Chor Maio, Robert Wegner, Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza)
 

December 2020

 

November 2020

The Balaiada War, 1838–1841 (Adriana Barreto de Souza)
Uruguay and UN Peacekeeping (Julian Gonzalez-Guyer)
 

October 2020

Native Brazilians under the Monarchy in Brazil (Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida)
The Brazilian Economy in the 19th Century (Carlos Gabriel Guimarães)
 

September 2020

Brazilian Historiography in the 20th Century (Thiago Lima Nicodemo, Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira, Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos)
Shining Path (Miguel La Serna)
 

August 2020

Brazil and World War II (Frank D. McCann)
The Sertão and its Representations (Nísia Trindade Lima, Tamara Rangel Vieira)
The Sabinada Rebellion (Monica Duarte Dantas, Roberto Saba)
Toward a History of Carnival (Martha Abreu, Eric Brasil)
 

July 2020

Brazilian Telenovelas and Modernity (Mônica Almeida Kornis)
 

June 2020

Digital Resources: Latin American Food and Food History (Rebekah E. Pite, Ana Ramirez Luhrs)
Digital Resources: Multepal, Mesoamerican Studies, and the Popol Wuj (Allison Margaret Bigelow, Rafael C. Alvarado)
 

May 2020

Neoliberalism in Chile (Alison J. Bruey)
 

April 2020

Digital Resources: The Digital Library of Ibero-American Heritage (Silvia E. Gutiérrez De la Torre, Miguel D. Cuadros-Sánchez)
Huichol Culture in Mexico, 1910–2019 (Michele McArdle Stephens)
The Moche (Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Karla Paola Patroni Castillo)
March 2020
Central America Under Liberal Rule, 1870–1929 (Carlos Gregorio López Bernal)
Interpretations of Underdevelopment in Brazil (Carlos Brandão, Hipólita Siqueira)
 

February 2020

Brazilian Historiography in the 19th Century (Thiago Lima Nicodemo, Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos, Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira)
 

January 2020

 

December 2019

 

November 2019

Digital Resources: Ricardo Flores Magón Archive (Jacinto Barrera Bassols, Verónica Buitrón Escamilla)
Pentecostalism in Brazil (R. Andrew Chesnut, Kate Kingsbury)

October 2019

The Brazilian Economy in the 20th Century (Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna)
 

September 2019

Barcelona Business Interests and the Atlantic World (Yolanda Blasco-Martel, Jose Miguel Sanjuan Marroquin)
Maps, Power, and the Pacification of La Araucanía-Chile, 1850–1900 (Pablo Azócar Fernández, Zenobio Saldivia Maldonado)
 

August 2019

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)
Sugar and the Formation of Colonial Brazil (Vera Lucia Amaral Ferlini)
 

July 2019

Digital Resources: Christianity in New Spain (Mexico) (Kristian J. Fabian, David T. Orique)
The Festival de Rock y Ruedas in Avándaro, 1971 (Juan Alberto Salazar Rebolledo)
 

June 2019

 

May 2019

Health Care Policy in Argentina (Giuseppe M. Messina)
 

April 2019

Brazilian Wildlife: History, Threats, and Opportunities (José Luiz de Andrade Franco, José Augusto Drummond)
Mexico and the New Neoliberalism (Kathleen C. Schwartzman)
The Colonial Amazon (Rafael Chambouleyron, Pablo Ibáñez-Bonillo)
 

March 2019

Digital Resources: DocuMedia Projects in Argentina (Silvana Comba, Edgardo Toledo, Anahí Lovato, Fernando Irigaray)
The 1964 Military Coup in Brazil (João Roberto Martins Filho)
 

February 2019

Dutch Atlantic (Evan Haefeli)
Marxist Thought in Brazil (Bernardo Ricupero)
Mexico's Early Cookbooks (Maite Gomez-Rejón)
 

January 2019

 

November 2018

October 2018

Child Labor in Brazil and Uruguay (Marcia Guedes Vieira)
Digital Resources: Chilean History (Danielle B. Barefoot)
Huguenots in the Atlantic (Bryan A. Banks)

September 2018

Digital Resources: The Hijuelas Collection (Matthew Butler, David A. Bliss)
Gabriel Vargas and La familia Burrón (Maira Mayola Benítez Carrillo)
Korean Popular Culture in Argentina (Grit Kirstin Koeltzsch), summary
Mexico and the New Neoliberalism (Kathleen C. Schwartzman), summary

August 2018

Mexico and the Pacific (Edward R. Slack)

July 2018

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)
Mexico and the Outside World (Friedrich E. Schuler)
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)

May 2018

Mexican Culture, 1920–1945 (Helen Delpar, Stephanie J. Smith)
The Reforma Period in Mexico (Paul Vanderwood, Robert Weis)

April 2018

Brazil – The Country of Football (Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda)
The Incas of the Andes (Susan Elizabeth Ramirez)

March 2018

The 1964 Military-Civilian Coup in Brazil (João Roberto Martins Filho), summary

February 2018

Latin American Marxism and the Atlantic (Andrés Estefane, Luis Thielemann)

January 2018

The Good Neighbor Policy (Max Paul Friedman)

December 2017

Music and Eastern Cuban Identity (Rebecca Bodenheimer)
The Spanish Caribbean, 1492-1550 (Ida Altman), summary

November 2017

October 2017

Cultural Institutions of the Brazilian Empire (Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz)
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)

September 2017

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

July 2017

Caste Wars in Yucatán (Michele McArdle Stephens)

June 2017

April 2017

March 2017

Juliet Barrett Rublee and Flame of Mexico (Elissa Rashkin, Isabel Arredondo)
Latin America in World War I (Friedrich E. Schuler)
Oil in the Andes (Stephen Cote)
Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil (Laura de Mello e Souza)

February 2017

January 2017

December 2016

Biography of a Colonial Document (Sylvia Sellers-García)
Eugenics in Latin America (Alexandra Minna Stern)

November 2016

September 2016

Exile in 19th-Century Haiti (Matthew J. Smith)
The Conquests of Peru (Christopher Heaney)

August 2016

Oil in the Andes (Stephen Cote), summary
Operation Pedro Pan (Anita Casavantes Bradford), summary
The Brazilian Military Regime, 1964–1985 (Marcos Napolitano), summary
The Drug Trade in Mexico (Aileen Teague)
The Mexico-United States War (Irving W. Levinson), summary
The Women of Guadalajara in Mexico's History (María Teresa Fernández Aceves)

July 2016

Disney Health Films in Mexico (María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo)

June 2016

May 2016

Architecture in Mexico City, 1940–1980 (Kathryn E. O’Rourke), summary
Chile and the Pacific World (Edward D. Melillo)
Music in Mexico City, 1880–1960 (Ricardo Pérez Montfort)
The Saamaka Maroons of Suriname (Richard Price, Sally Price), summary

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)
The 1965 Agrarian Revolt in Madera, Chihuahua (Elizabeth A. Henson) (summary)
The Caribbean Visual Palette (Patricia Mohammed) (summary)

March 2016

Alliance for Progress (Stephen G. Rabe)
Indigenismo (Estelle Tarica)
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
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
 

December 2015

Maternal Death in Mexico (Paola Sesia) summary
Porfirian Politics (Paul Garner) summary
 

November 2015

Salvador Allende (Steven S. Volk)
 

October 2015

Popular Religion, Death, and Nation in Paraguay (Michael Kenneth Huner) summary
Quechua (Alan Durston)
 

September 2015

Exile in 19th-Century Haiti (Matthew J. Smith) summary
Maternal Health in the Andes (Nicole L. Pacino)
The Pizarro Clan (Susan Elizabeth Ramirez)
 

August 2015

Wars of Spanish-American Independence (Natalia Sobrevilla Perea)
 

July 2015

Machu Picchu (Willie Hiatt)
 

June 2015

 

May 2015

Digital Resources: Mesolore (Liza Bakewell, Byron Hamann) 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.)
 

March 2015

 

February 2015

 

December 2014

Digital Resources: Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (Joanne Harwood, Valerie Fraser, Sarah J. Demelo) summary
Digital Resources: The Handbook of Latin American Studies (Katherine D. McCann, Tracy North) summary
 

October 2014

Digital Research on the Visual Culture of Spanish America (Barbara E. Mundy, Dana Leibsohn) 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

Latin America and the League of Nations (Fabián Herrera León) summary
Yellow Fever in the Caribbean (Mariola Espinosa) summary
 

August 2014