Inventing America: 1492-1992

We are soon to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of a momentous event that some people still call "the discovery of ...

When General Augusto Pinoehet ar- rived in Valparaiso last March to hand over power to Christian Democrat Patri- cio Aylwin ...

As I flew over the Andes mountains and into Santiago last July, I heard the high-pitched, excited voices of several ...

First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 ed. by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath, ...

Five hundred years ago, through the mountains of what today are Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, merchant caravans with hundreds ...

Historian Alberto Flores Galindo, one of Peru’s most gifted left intellectuals, died of cancer in March of last year at ...

Our memory is like a broken mirror. It does not reflect the world as it was, but our fragmented, partial, ...

THE BLACK AND THE ROSE-COLORED LEGENDS -two extremes that leave us outside of history, out- side of reality. These interpretations ...