Hispanic American Historical Review
@hahr21.bsky.social
Founded in 1918, the Hispanic American Historical Review publishes vital work in Latin American history across thematic and methodological specializations.
A video discussing a digital archive of thousands of historical photographs from Mexico. youtu.be/c2qb1KlPkho?...
Asómate - Catálogo Digital del Archivo Fotográfico “Manuel Toussaint”
YouTube video by Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas UNAM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A video discussing a digital archive of thousands of historical photographs from Mexico. youtu.be/c2qb1KlPkho?...
In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Joan Flores-Villalobos examines the history of claims over the Essequibo territory, including the late nineteenth-century diplomatic battles that culminated in 1899 in today's borders between Venezuela and Guyana. doi.org/10.1215/0018...
“Our Country”: Extractive Colonialism and Labor in the Essequibo Borderland
Abstract. This article examines the long history of claims over the Essequibo territory (now the Venezuela-Guyana border), focused on the late nineteenth-century gold rush and the ensuing diplomatic b...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Joan Flores-Villalobos examines the history of claims over the Essequibo territory, including the late nineteenth-century diplomatic battles that culminated in 1899 in today's borders between Venezuela and Guyana. doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Congratulations to HAHR board member Marcy Norton, whose book The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492 has been awarded a number of prizes from the American Historical Association and the Conference on Latin American History. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/history...
History professor Marcy Norton awarded | Penn Today
Marcy Norton, professor of history in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, has received three awards for her new book, “The Tame and the Wild”: the Friedrich Katz Prize from the American Historical Assoc...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Congratulations to HAHR board member Marcy Norton, whose book The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492 has been awarded a number of prizes from the American Historical Association and the Conference on Latin American History. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/history...
In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Raúl Alencar examines how foreign traders navigated opposition from local elites in mid-eighteenth-century Peru. doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Strangers in the Promised Land: Jenízaros, Foreigners, and the Perils of Trade in Colonial Peru, 1750–1764
Abstract. This article examines how foreign traders navigated opposition from local elites in mid-eighteenth-century Peru, including repeated decrees prohibiting their presence, to sustain their comme...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, Raúl Alencar examines how foreign traders navigated opposition from local elites in mid-eighteenth-century Peru. doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Hot off the digital press at @dukepress.bsky.social: HAHR 105.4. read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/issue/1...
Volume 105 Issue 4 | Hispanic American Historical Review | Duke University Press
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November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Hot off the digital press at @dukepress.bsky.social: HAHR 105.4. read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/issue/1...
An archive of TV and radio broadcasts in Argentina, with material from 1920 to 2009. www.archivorta.com.ar
Archivo Prisma
Archivo de la Radio Y Televisión Argentina
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November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An archive of TV and radio broadcasts in Argentina, with material from 1920 to 2009. www.archivorta.com.ar
The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent research on a 15th-century Inca building in Huaytará, Peru. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music
Researchers will use 3D modeling to assess what the "carpa uasi" in Huaytará, Peru, originally looked like and how sound traveled through it
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November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent research on a 15th-century Inca building in Huaytará, Peru. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
HAHR senior editor Fernando Pérez-Montesinos discusses his research on the liberal state and capitalism in 19th- and early 20th-century Purepecha highlands. www.youtube.com/live/zrXGKPI...
Presentación de libro. Landscaping Indigenous Mexico
YouTube video by El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
HAHR senior editor Fernando Pérez-Montesinos discusses his research on the liberal state and capitalism in 19th- and early 20th-century Purepecha highlands. www.youtube.com/live/zrXGKPI...
You can read more of Dr. López's work on the history of Mexico in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You can read more of Dr. López's work on the history of Mexico in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
HAHR author Rick A. López discusses his research on the history of botany in Mexico with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/rooted-in-pl...
Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
HAHR author Rick A. López discusses his research on the history of botany in Mexico with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/rooted-in-pl...
A video explaining the contents of the Archivo Histórico y de Investigación Documental Eduardo Báez Macías, containing archival materials related to the history of art in Mexico. youtu.be/dVLRfj98Nm8?...
Asómate - Archivo Histórico y de Investigación Documental “Eduardo Báez Macías”
YouTube video by Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas UNAM
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A video explaining the contents of the Archivo Histórico y de Investigación Documental Eduardo Báez Macías, containing archival materials related to the history of art in Mexico. youtu.be/dVLRfj98Nm8?...
You can read more of Prof. Velasco's work on the history of Venezuela in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You can read more of Prof. Velasco's work on the history of Venezuela in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
HAHR author and editorial board member Alejandro Velasco discusses recent US actions regarding Venezuela and throughout Latin America. youtu.be/kCtSpeiSzZA?...
"Rubio's Ideological Project": What's Driving Trump's Campaign Against Venezuela?
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
HAHR author and editorial board member Alejandro Velasco discusses recent US actions regarding Venezuela and throughout Latin America. youtu.be/kCtSpeiSzZA?...
You can read more of @aditaferrer.bsky.social's research on this history in HAHR, made open access by @dukepress.bsky.social, here: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
You can read more of @aditaferrer.bsky.social's research on this history in HAHR, made open access by @dukepress.bsky.social, here: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
HAHR author Ada Ferrer discusses the history of Cuba on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/cuba
Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021) - New Books Network
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October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
HAHR author Ada Ferrer discusses the history of Cuba on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/cuba
For the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, historian Surekha Davies critically examines the representations of the Americas and Africa in an early 16th-century Portuguese panel painting of hell. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...
This Disturbing 16th-Century Painting of Hell Linked Satan and His Demons With the New World Beyond Europe
The panel features monsters with African, Indigenous Caribbean and intersex features, encouraging viewers to connect the sins and punishments depicted to those considered "other"
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October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
For the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, historian Surekha Davies critically examines the representations of the Americas and Africa in an early 16th-century Portuguese panel painting of hell. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...
You can read more of @gabimit.bsky.social's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You can read more of @gabimit.bsky.social's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
The Asociación Argentina de Investigadores en Historia's Historiar podcast discusses the history of fashion and clothing in 19th-century Argentina with Teresita Garabana and HAHR author Gabriela Mitidieri. open.spotify.com/episode/5BN3...
Historia de la moda
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October 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Asociación Argentina de Investigadores en Historia's Historiar podcast discusses the history of fashion and clothing in 19th-century Argentina with Teresita Garabana and HAHR author Gabriela Mitidieri. open.spotify.com/episode/5BN3...
The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent archaeological research in the Andes. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
High in the Andes of Northern Chile, Hunters Once Used These Stone Wall Traps to Capture Prey
Archaeologist Adrián Oyaneder discovered dozens of structures called chacu while reviewing satellite images of the Camarones River Basin
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October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reports on recent archaeological research in the Andes. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
SECOLAS has launched a new podcast series on the deep history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with contributions from numerous scholars of Cuba. open.spotify.com/episode/2VUV...
Renata Keller and Dustin Walcher - A Cuban Story (Episode 1)
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October 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
SECOLAS has launched a new podcast series on the deep history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with contributions from numerous scholars of Cuba. open.spotify.com/episode/2VUV...
Congrats to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez for this prize! Keep an eye out for the prizewinning article, forthcoming in the February 2026 issue (an advance publication version is available here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...)
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Congrats to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez for this prize! Keep an eye out for the prizewinning article, forthcoming in the February 2026 issue (an advance publication version is available here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...)
You can read more of Prof. @csschmitt.bsky.social's research on this topic in HAHR here: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You can read more of Prof. @csschmitt.bsky.social's research on this topic in HAHR here: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
HAHR author Casey Schmitt discusses the history of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean. youtu.be/3bT61zJd2vc?...
The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
YouTube video by The Library Company of Philadelphia
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October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
HAHR author Casey Schmitt discusses the history of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean. youtu.be/3bT61zJd2vc?...
The Latino USA podcast discusses the history of tango in Argentina. www.latinousa.org/2025/10/10/h...
From the Brothels of Argentina to the World Stage: The Complicated History of Tango - Latino USA
Discover the untold story of tango—born in Buenos Aires’ brothels and shaped by Argentina’s African and queer communities.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Latino USA podcast discusses the history of tango in Argentina. www.latinousa.org/2025/10/10/h...
From Memoria Chilena, a new site featuring digitized archival materials for the early twentieth-century poet María Monvel. www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-artic...
Memoria Chilena rescata la obra de María Monvel, poeta y traductora - Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
Memoria Chilena rescata la obra de María Monvel, poeta y traductora Memoria Chilena presenta un nuevo minisitio sobre la escritora iquiqueña, quien desarrolló una reconocida obra poética y destacó po...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
From Memoria Chilena, a new site featuring digitized archival materials for the early twentieth-century poet María Monvel. www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-artic...