Hispanic American Historical Review

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, @aduranton.bsky.social describes the attempts to adapt wheat in Hispaniola in the sixteenth century. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

The Colorful Tale of Mexico's A-maize-ing Grain - Gastropod The past, present, and future of corn: a story that involves empires, vampires, and generations of women chained to the (literal) grindstone.

The newest episode of the Gastropod podcast recounts the Mesoamerican history of corn. gastropod.com/the-colorful...

Narrating Boundary Markers in Early Colonial Highland Guatemala Abstract. Establishing and maintaining borders inherently relies on human relations between those invested in the landscape. As such, boundary records document not only territorial limits but the soci...

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Mallory E. Matsumoto studies how K'iche'an Maya land titles from early colonial highland Guatemala document not only territorial limits but the sociopolitical context that supports or contests them. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Volume 105 Issue 3 | Hispanic American Historical Review | Duke University Press

Hot off the digital press at @dukepress.bsky.social, HAHR 105.3, a special issue entitled "Infrastructures of Spanish Empire." read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/issue/1...

The article, which recently won honorable mention for LASA's Sylvia Molloy Prize for best article about sexualities in the humanities, has been made freely available for a limited time by @dukepress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

An interview with Javier Fernández-Galeano and Mir Yarfitz about their HAHR article “Serious Maricas and Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921–1945." hahr-online.com/an-interview...

Memórica México has digitized 16th-century documents recently recovered by the Archivo General de la Nación. memoricamexico.gob.mx/es/memorica/...

From Memoria Chilena, newly digitized archival materials relating to the history of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and its director from 1910 to 1927, Carlos Silva Cruz. www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-artic...

You can read more of Prof. @restall.bsky.social's work in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

YouTube video by Arizona Historical Society Where Columbus Almost Met Cortés and Montezuma with Dr. Matthew Restall

HAHR author and former senior editor Matthew Restall @restall.bsky.social discusses historical memory and mythmaking around Hernando Cortés, Moctezuma, and Christopher Columbus. youtu.be/I1hQSnz2kTE?...

An interview with Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz and Patricio Leyton Alvarado, authors of the article “Astronomy and Politics in Chile,” recently published in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: hahr-online.com/interview-wi...
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Archaeologists Unearth Treasure-Filled Tomb Belonging to the First Known Ruler of a Maya City in Belize 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

The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent archaeological research on the Classic-period Maya. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees Latino USA · Episode

The Latino USA podcast tells the story of 28 Mexican men who died in the US in 1948 while participating in the Bracero Program. open.spotify.com/episode/4YfT...

An extensive digitized collection of Colombian periodicals from the end of the 18th century to the first half of the 20th. www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/sets/1215/

Fishermen in the Brazilian Amazon Discover Enormous Funerary Urns Beneath a Toppled Tree The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains

The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent pre-Columbian archaeological finds in the Brazilian Amazon. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/f...

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 @dukepress.bsky.social. hahr-online.com/interview-wi...

The Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia has recently digitized issues of Jornada, the weekly newspaper founded in the 1940s by Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. www.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/content/cons...

Gas Workers Digging Beneath the Streets of Lima Stumble Upon 1,000-Year-Old Mummy With Dark Brown Hair 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

The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on a recent archaeological discovery in Lima possibly related to the the Chancay culture. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/g...

Interview with Marc Becker, whose article “The Complex Dynamics of Indigenous Education in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ecuador as a Theater for Political Debate” was recently published in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social. hahr-online.com/interview-wi...

You can read more of @amoterocleves.bsky.social's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Plebian Consumers: Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia with Ana Maria Otero-Cleves Hagley History Hangout · Episode

HAHR author Ana María Otero-Cleves discusses her research on popular consumption in 19th-century Colombia on the @hagleycenter.bsky.social podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/4baW...

Digitized issues of periodicals published in Chocó, Colombia, from the 19th to the 21st century. hemeroteca.utch.edu.co

Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911-1982) - Memoria Chilena Eduardo Frei Montalva fue uno de los políticos más influyentes de su tiempo. Su gobierno (1964-1970) planteó una "Revolución en libertad" al proponer un conjunto de reformas estructurales que incluía ...

Memoria Chilena has digitized archival materials relating to Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva. www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-artic...

An interview with Kristen Block about her article "Remedios for Relationships: Social Precarity and Amatory Therapeutics in the Early Circum-Caribbean,” published recently in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social. hahr-online.com/interview-wi...

Memórica México shares digitized archival materials from 1978 relating to the Comité ¡Eureka! memoricamexico.gob.mx/es/memorica/...

These Gold Coins May Solve the Mystery of the 'World's Richest Shipwreck,' Confirming Its Identity as a Legendary 18th-Century Galleon Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the Colombian coast in 1708 with treasure worth billions on board

The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent archaeological research relating to 18th-century Spanish American maritime trade. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Maya and the Inquisition Not Just the Tudors · Episode

A recent episode of the Not Just Tudors podcast on the Maya and Diego de Landa. open.spotify.com/episode/3ABr...

YouTube video by CEDOC UNMSM Colección Documental de la Federación de Estudiantes del Perú | CEDOC UNMSM

Early twentieth-century archival materials for the Federación de Estudiantes del Perú have been recently digitized. youtube.com/shorts/9h2pe...

Feasting With Montezuma: Food and Farming in a Floating City by Gastropod

The newest episode of the Gastropod podcast discusses the history of Mexica agriculture and foodways. megaphone.link/VMP8263409916

HAHR senior editor Fernando Pérez-Montesinos discusses his research on landholding in the 19th- and early 20th-century Purépecha highlands on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/landscaping-...