Latin America

  • Seeking Truths through Fiction

    Alix E. Harrow, Suzanne Marie Litrel, and Laury Silvers | Nov 16, 2021

    Alix E. Harrow, Suzanne Marie Litrel, and Laury Silvers detail how they went from writing history to writing fiction.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Victor M. Uribe-Uran

    Matthew Keough | Sep 10, 2021

    Victor M. Uribe-Uran is a professor of history and law and chair of the history department at Florida International University.
  • From Water and Radicalism to Archival Friendships

    Mark Philip Bradley | Aug 25, 2021

    The September issue of the American Historical Review showcases the chronological, methodological, and spatial reach that has become a hallmark...
  • We Are Part of Nature

    Matthew Plishka | Aug 5, 2021

    Multispecies political ecology can help environmental historians reveal how nonhuman species can shape the world.
  • Can Plants Help Us to Understand COVID-19?

    Matthew Plishka | Jul 12, 2021

    Many of the same mistakes and oversights that we see in human disease control today were made in the early 20th-century fight against Panama Disease.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: John R. Chávez

    Matthew Keough | May 25, 2021

    John R. Chávez is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University. He lives in Garland, Texas, and has been a member since 2001.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Brandi Townsend

    Matthew Keough | May 18, 2021

    Brandi Townsend is an assistant teaching professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She lives in Santiago, Chile, and has been a member since 2007.
  • Cliché and Caricature

    Dario A. Euraque | May 12, 2021

    A historian of Latin America explains the origins of the term banana republic and why it was not an appropriate...
  • Wrapping It Up

    Alex Lichtenstein | Apr 22, 2021

    The June issue of the American Historical Review features three History Unclassified essays, seven articles, and a cluster of reviews...
  • A Crocodile’s Gaze

    Danielle Alesi | Mar 30, 2021

    Crocodiles have been our gods, predators, commodities, and pests, and though they inhabited this planet long before us, our histories are intertwined.

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