Why global museums amassed the ancestral dead, starting in Peru It is a time of worldwide reckoning for museums that display or contain ancestral dead. But the specific story of the collect...
https://blog.oup.com/2023/11/why-global-museums-amassed-the-ancestral-dead-starting-in-peru/
The heavy burden of the past: the history of the conquest of México and the politics of today The history of the conquest of Mexico by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century remain...
Climate emergency: lessons from Classic Maya to contemporary China In episode 81 of The Oxford Comment, we discussed the environmental resilience of the Maya with scholar Kenneth E. Seligs...
Memory, truth, and justice as Argentina honours the victims of state terrorism 24 March is a public holiday in Argentina, officially designated as The Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justi...
The top 10 history blog posts of 2021 Travel back in time to the recent past and explore the OUPblog’s top 10 history blog posts of 2021. From dispelling Euro-centric myths of the Aztec e...
https://blog.oup.com/2021/12/the-top-10-history-blog-posts-of-2021/
Native conquistadors: the role of Tlaxcala in the fall of the Aztec empire The Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, leading to the collapse of the Aztec empire, would have been impossible were ...
The three greatest myths of the Fall of Tenochtitlán 13 August 2021 marks the moment, exactly five hundred years ago, when Spanish conquistadors won the battle for Tenochtitlán, completin...
https://blog.oup.com/2021/08/the-three-greatest-myths-of-the-fall-of-tenochtitlan/
Mexican independence from Spain and the first Mexican emperor Mexico had been battling its way towards independence from Spain for some years when, in 1820, the Mexican-born officer, Agust�...
https://blog.oup.com/2021/06/mexican-independence-from-spain-and-the-first-mexican-emperor/
A change in Brazil’s national populist government As we approach 15 November, a national holiday marking the end of the Brazilian Empire and proclamation of the Brazilian Republic in 1889...
https://blog.oup.com/2020/11/a-change-in-brazils-national-populist-government/
The apocalypse of the Inca empire The Inca Empire rose and fell over the course of a millennium, driven to its demise by internal strife and Spanish conquistadors. This timeline highlights...
https://blog.oup.com/2020/08/the-apocalypse-of-the-inca-empire-timeline/
Hegemonic comeback in Mexico? The victory of López Obrador On 1 July, Mexicans elected a new president. The results confirmed what the polls had been predicting for months: Andrés Manuel ...
Mexican Women’s Self-Expression through Dress – Episode 43 – The Oxford Comment Our host for this episode is William Beezley, Professor of History at the University of Arizona and Edi...
https://blog.oup.com/2018/05/mexican-womens-self-expression-dress-oxford-comment/
The economic relationship between Mexico and the United States Mexico and the United States share a highly integrated economic relationship. There seems to be an assumption among many Ameri...
Going back to instrumental lessons Three existential questions are useful to all of us: “Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?” The publication of The Integrated String Play...
When the kids outsmarted the dictators Decades before the internet was invented, young Argentines documented police brutality without iPhones, met and discussed their movement without socia...
Can microbiology tell us exactly what killed the Aztecs? The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors to Mexico in the 1620s marked the beginning of the end for the indigenous people. With an e...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/11/microbiology-what-killed-the-aztecs/
The Bolivarian (r)evolution: the perpetual liberation of Venezuela Ignoring both domestic and international protests, Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has recently overseen the creat...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/11/bolivarian-revolution-perpetual-liberation-venezuela/
Beyond the cold fact: The WPA narratives, Brazil’s black peasants, and the conduct of oral history When the 1988 Constitution recognized and gave lands to black rural communities descendi...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/black-peasants-brazil-oral-history/
Finding reliable information on Latin America in the Internet flood Recent political rhetoric filled with such hot button words as “drugs,” “immigrants,” “the Wall,” and “terr...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/finding-reliable-information-latin-america-internet-flood/
Singing resistance on the border At an early age, Américo Paredes was preoccupied with the inexorable passing of time, which would leave an imprint in his academic career. Devoting his aca...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/09/singing-resistance-americo-paredes-corrido/
Bodily identity and biotypology in Brazil What does your body shape say about you? When typing this question on any online search engine one will find dozens of examples and images of model...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/08/bodily-identity-biotypology-brazil/
Brinksmanship does little to resolve crisis in Venezuela For over eighty days, the opposition has challenged the government of Nicolás Maduro and sought his ouster through direct street ac...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/07/brinksmanship-crisis-venezuela/
Puerto Rico in crisis The US territory of Puerto Rico is currently experiencing its most severe and prolonged economic downturn since the Great Depression (1929–33). Between 2006 and 20...
How simple, rural products changed Argentina’s history With globalization and industrialization came both freedom and dependency, as Argentina shed the persistent stereotype that the coun...
https://blog.oup.com/2017/04/argentina-commodities-products/
How has Mexico influenced the United States economically? While the current US administration is re-examining the North American Free Trade Agreement and finding issues with the trade defic...